The power of oaths

Senators? Are you listening?

Some of us watching yesterday’s solemn ceremony of U.S. senators signing their names to the vaunted oath book came away a little disappointed.

Because of the seriousness of an impeachment (The former president’s second! This time for inciting an insurrection! A record-breaker, a personal best for the most flawed man ever to hold the office!), senators w…