WHAT!! Lawmakers may vote themselves and their aides an ObamaCare exemption.

Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.

The talks ... are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.

Yet if Capitol Hill leaders move forward with the plan, they risk being dubbed hypocrites by their political rivals and the American public. By removing themselves from a key Obamacare component, lawmakers and aides would be held to a different standard than the people who put them in office.

Tough sh*t. They built this pigsty; now they should be required to wallow in it with the rest of the little people.

OBAMACAREFAIL UPDATE: Stephen Green takes note and ends with this observation: exemption or no, "[ObamaCare is] still crappy policy, and one which is already costing Americans money and putting up big barriers between us and our physicians."