On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 19:23:02 -0500, BAR wrote:

When I was commissioned, I swore to defend the Constitution against
all enemies, foreign or domestic. Apparently the U.S. Senate
doesn't have the same requirement.

It is pretty damy close.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/...ng/Oath_Office.
htm

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and
domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I
take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose
of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of
the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

If that were the case, they wouldn't be trying to make this a police
state, expanding out the undeclared war to one against our own
citizens.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison