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Wow... I actually agree with Shovel this time.

I would just add a full body-cavity search at the TSA checkpoints for politicians though.

The amendment is just another Tea Party political stunt. Rand Paul knows it, but is hoping that his Bible-thumping, tambourine-banging, snake-handling, young-earth, and otherwise uneducated base does not. Further, there have been 11,000 or more proposed amendments to the Constitution, only 33 have passed Congress, and only 27 have been ratified by the states, so the chance of this becoming law is somewhere between remote and non-existent. But the Tea Party never lets a good publicity stunt go to waste.

So, all laws must apply equally. Congress hires a janitor to clean up the Halls of Congress. Do they have to hire one for everyone else too?

All citizens should be considered as equal in the eyes of the law. Sure I support it but I doubt if it would pass and I am sure he doubts it as well as I do. He is trying to draw attention to the failings of Obamacare and I can respect that. I wish he would devote as much effort to making the law we have actually work for us as he does to scrapping it altogether. Obamacare has glaring flaws but some kind of health care reform was called for and while republicans have been great at pointing out every flaw, they have so far failed to offer us solutions.

That kind of tunnel vision suggest that republicans are more interested in insuring that our presidents programs fail than they are in solving the problems that plague our nation. Obamacare may be the dumbest law ever written but at least someone tried to fix healthcare. At least someone acknowledged that a system which bankrupts millions of people every year needed to be fixed. All republicans have done is waste their every waking moment trying to undo the law that passed. When are they going to use the 1/3 of government we gave them to fix the problems they themselves have spent years pointing out? And no, turning back the clock to our health care system before Obama is not a solution.

Congress AND The President

The worst abuse is the insider trading that goes on all the time with privileged information that would land any investment banker or capital markets trader in prison by the SEC in a second.

Sounds like a solid concept but, it has been tried before and fails. The insider trading thing was actually a big issue when this president took over, they claimed to have addressed it to but when broken down. It was just another dog and pony show.