Just musing here…
This is pretty much the oath anyone entering federal employment must take, including congresscritters:
“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.”
My modest proposal would insert after “swear” the words, “I will first do no harm to the republic,” followed by “that I will support and defend…” etc.
It’d have no more force than the current oath does on that conspiracy of dunces who almost daily do harm to the Constitution and the republic it defines, but at least it’d be easier to point out to some of the dimmer sheeple how much in violation of their oaths of office they are. Maybe. There’s no way to plumb the depths of sheeple stupidity.
The dimmer sheeple don’t stay aware enough to know what their reps are doing in the first place.
And making them take a type of Hippocratic Oath is an idea I can get behind. After all, medical doctors treat the human body. These arses treat the body politic. What’s the big difference?
and if they aren’t going to follow the constitution, then by God, tear it up and start all over. Either follow it, or get rid of it. But don’t take vows to follow it then do everything you can think of to change the meaning of it. If it’s worthless then it’s worthless.
And no David, i wasn’t talking to you, lol.