Under the circumstances, may I suggest another means of encouraging probity in elective office. I refer to term limitations, which can serve ends beyond that of saving congressional souls.
Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The new limitations are the human ones of perception.
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
But out of limitations comes creativity.