Simply pass a law NOW requiring all members of congress to have to use the same health insurance process that they impose on their constituents.

It appears as if Republican members of Congress are attempting to exempt themselves from some of the more brutal aspects of Trumpcare. But this is a different kind of exemption than their previous "exemption."

A few years ago, you might've heard just about every Republican member of Congress, along with Fox News and AM talk radio, shrieking about how members of Congress are "exempted" from Obamacare. The point they were trying to make is that Obamacare is so awful and so ridiculous that the Obama administration offered Congress a Get-Out-Of-Obamacare-Free card.

Taking it one step further, they insisted that if Obamacare isn't good enough for Congress, why should the American people be forced to endure its awfulness? The people should be exempted, too. It's difficult to encapsulate in any language, living or dead, the sheer intellectual violence of this lie.

Rewind to the marathon healthcare reform debate in 2009.

In an effort to flim-flam the Democrats, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) proposed an amendment that forced members of Congress and congressional staffers to abandon the existing Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan and, instead, to sign up for Obamacare in the health insurance marketplaces just like ordinary Americans. Again, the point was to illustrate the shoddy and undesirable nature of Obamacare, and, subsequently, how the Democrats would balk at the notion, thus undermining their own pitch for how great the law will be.

But the Democrats called Grassley's bluff and accepted the amendment.