Apply it to everyone and there's no more crime!

My friend Catherine shared an article from Newsmax talking about how the Larry Craig case is indicative of the above-the-law sense of entitlement that lawmakers have developed. It talks about an interesting tool used by the diligent Capitol Police - the "unarrest."

Unarresting is what happens when a Capitol Police officer has the misfortune to learn, after having made an arrest, that the person charged is a member of Congress. In that case, a supervisor is called, and he drives the member of Congress home. No record is made of the arrest. In other words, it is covered up.

Of course, if a Capitol Police officer learns before an arrest that the suspect is a member of Congress, the process is much simpler: He never makes the arrest in the first place.

Simple, isn't it? See the article for a nice snapshot into the life of Ted "The Bridge" Kennedy.

“The ego and the arrogance of some of the members had an impact on me,” John R. Niston, a former Capitol Police officer, told me. “They get to the point where they think the people in the country exist to serve them instead of the other way around.”

I could be wrong, but I don't think that is the idea the Founders had in mind...