Via Instapundit comes this grand idea for a constitutional amendment:

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.

A cursory Google search shows that the idea for what would be the 28th Amendment has been around since at least November. Odds are good that it is being driven at least in part by questions this year about whether Congress will exempt itself from a health-care system that would impose burdensome new mandates on others.

On the surface, I like the proposal. Members of Congress for too long have exempted themselves from key laws they write for everyone else while at the same time bestowing upon themselves perks and benefits unavailable to your average enlightened redneck. I say it’s about time Congress start governing equally for goose and gander.

That said, Americans should be wary of some of the arguments made to garner support for such an amendment. PolitiFact already has characterized as false the claim that Congress is planning to exempt itself from the plan for a national health-care system, and the proposed language for the 28th Amendment often is included with text that reads like this:
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