Members of Congress can retire with the same pay after serving only one term, they don’t pay into Social Security, and they’ve specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they pass while ordinary citizens must live under those laws.  

The new Health Care Bill promises to cost Americans a trillion dollars over ten years, but the Obamastration suggests that it will reduce the deficit by 1.5 trillion in the same time.  So, you do the math – spend a new trillion and save 1.5 trillion.

PRESIDENT OBAMA AND VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THE OVAL OFFICE AS THE PRESIDENT PREPARES TO LEAVE FOR INDONESIA – A WEEK LATE.

BIDEN:

(eating from a box of Girl Scout cookies)

I know you didn’t want to, but I think it was a good idea to agree to the non-federal funding of abortion.  Want a cookie?

OBAMA:          

No thanks, Joe.  The whole thing is a mess and now there is a whole group arguing for a new amendment to the constitution.

BIDEN:

(brushing crumbs off his lapel)

That will never happen.  Look how long it took to get this health care bill in place.  And, the fact that you got the pharmaceuticals to agree to spend over 80 billion to fund the senior prescription thing is pretty damn amazing.  A new amendment?  Not in our lifetime.

BIDEN HOLDS OUT THE BOX OF COOKIES TO THE PRESIDENT.  OBAMA SHAKES HIS HEAD “NO.”

OBAMA:          

The amendment may take steam, Joe.  They want Congress to agree that any law that applies to the citizens of the United States will apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and that Congress will make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.

BIDEN:

(smiles wide – moving cookie residue from under his upper lip with his index finger, then swallowing)

That’s ridiculous, Mr. President.  Plain ridiculous.

OBAMA:          

(looking out the window behind his desk)

I don’t know, Joe.  It makes fair sense and could gather steam.

BIDEN STANDS AND TOSSES THE EMPTY COOKIE BOX INTO THE PRESIDENTIAL SHREDDER.

BIDEN:

Mr. President, if there is one thing that will get both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans, to agree, it’s that that amendment would never happen. 

OBAMA:          

(reflects for a moment and then smiles)

Why, Joe.  I do think you’re right on that.