>Number one on the list of Gingrich’s Contract With America was: “require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress”.
Indeed. I wonder how the system would be different if our politicians were “forced” to deal with laws and life like every other member of ‘We the people’.
And why isn’t it that they ever get prosecuted. criminally?
They shouldn’t have to deal with the SAME laws as the rest of us. When they want to regulate us or to restrict us in some way, there should be a trial period where the same regulation is enforced DOUBLE on them for two years or something. If they can’t live with it double, we shouldn’t have to accept it at normal strength. Then if they CAN accept it, after the trial period it should still be more harsh on them than on us, but maybe not double.