Hypocrite is spelled R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N

[tomtoolbag]

  LOL, only a republican. He hates government health care insurance or insurance reform, but wants it so that he's got health care insurance coverage, and he's a doctor no less. He thinks that it's so inefficient and that it's "a gateway to socialized medicine", but he's mad as hell that it won't kick in soon enough for him!!!!!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45181.html

GOP frosh: Where's my health care?

A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in.

Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1 – 28 days after his Jan. 3rd swearing-in.

“He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care,” said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange. The benefits session, held behind closed doors, drew about 250 freshman members, staffers and family members to the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium late Monday morning,”.

“Harris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap,” added the aide, who was struck by the similarity to Harris’s request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine.

Harris, a Maryland state senator who works at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and several hospitals on the Eastern Shore, also told the audience, “This is the only employer I’ve ever worked for where you don’t get coverage the first day you are employed,” his spokeswoman Anna Nix told POLITICO.

Under COBRA law, Harris can pay a premium to extend his current health insurance an additional month.

Nix said Harris, who is the father of five, wasn’t being hypocritical – he was just pointing out the inefficiency of government-run health care.

Harris hammered Kratovil on health care throughout a bitter fall campaign, despite the fact that the conservative Democrat voted twice against the reform package backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), a close Kratovil ally.

“Although he voted against Obamacare, Mr. Kratovil refuses to commit to its repeal. Dr. Harris understands that the Obama-Pelosi-Hoyer agenda threatens to pull the plug on America's long-term health," Harris said in an Oct. 30 statement. “"In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal health-care reform, and I will work to balance the budget."

[bruce MN]

Don't expect them to respond.

This is a hotter than blazes story that is moving well beyond teh web and is finding it's way to the mainstream press.

The preferred response is ignoring...hoping it will flame out. But ANY independent or moderate who got sucked into the tea pot is going to know what this is if he or she sees it.

Not sayin' that there is a mass of Democrats out there who is any better in any way, but this bit is spectacular. Thus the intentional silence. Finding it indefensible...so just trust the  presumably ignorant (as by the fact that they voted for clowns like this guy) public not to notice.

[kraft-t]

I think it show how out of touch he is. I don't know of any jobs in the private sector where you qualify for a full benefits package on day one. Even my grand daughter who worked for a majorm hospital in Tulsa had a waiting period for a health care benefit. I thionk it may be designed to give them time to evaluate the new employee and see if they are going to work out.

Another benefit of single payer is that there is no worry about insurance following you when you transfer jobs. Perhaps that is what the right prefers is employees being held hostage to their old jobs because of health conditions.

[tomtoolbag]

  LOL, in all fairness though, they don't like reasonable health care and insurance for US, they never bothered to mention about for themselves.

  I kind of thought that some of the teabaggers that ran for office that profess to hate government and everything that it does, are using a political office to take them to easy street. Basically use that position as a rags-to-riches- type of stepping stone to personal prosperity and power. They know what comes with those elected positions and what a future may hold that may or may not include politics. They tried to pass it off as some noble endeavor that in reality they hope is their bypassing life's hurdles and ending up in some type of "lifestyles of the rich and famous".

  But, gold plated dog crap is still dog crap. 

[bruce MN]

Tom just described Sarah Palin, Sharon Angel and Christine ODonnell for us:

 "I kind of thought that some of the teabaggers that ran for office that profess to hate government and everything that it does, are using a political office to take them to easy street. Basically use that position as a rags-to-riches- type of stepping stone to personal prosperity and power."

[GreaTOne_654018744]

Only a Republican! Open mouth insert foot, chew lightly!! G*d, do they have any sane sensible people in their ranks?? Just read the comments even on lowly old AgOnline!!

[schnurrbart]

Where O where have all the repubs gone ( sung to the tune of "where have all the flowers gone" by Pete Seeger)?????

[r3020]

[tomtoolbag]

  Bruce, here's the website where I picked up that story. I believe that he's a fellow attendee of the Fightin' Bob Fest. I like his comments on articles and the way he digs up articles that many want to ignore. Check out his site sometime.

   http://gripernews.blogspot.com/

[tomtoolbag]

  I came across this, and ironically it's not from a red state, or the ones that constantly whine about the government, but from Illinois, and the 17th district that I grew up in. That seat switched to democrat in 1983 and was filled by a good guy and strong advocate for veterans named Lane Evans and stayed democrat since he retired due to Parkinson's disease in 2006, and now it's held by an outlandish teabagger who worships Glenn Beck. I'll believe it when he PROVES IT though, because this shtick has been told many times before, with an emphasis on term limits.

  FYI, his pizza sucks too, and maybe this is just a way to drum up some business. I like how he says that the government and uncertainty towards small business kept him from franchising his company, like the recession and crappy food didn't have anything to do with it.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/11/congress-new-pizza-man.html

Congress’ New Pizza Man: Thumbs-Down to Government Health Care, Thumbs-Up to DC Pizza

Rep.-elect Bobby Schilling won election to Congress earlier this month as a quintessential outsider whose anger at Washington drove him to get involved in politics – a Moline, Ill., pizza parlor owner who’d never run for office before defeating a Democratic incumbent in a House race.

Schilling, R-Ill., told us on ABC’s “Top Line” today that he’s staying true to his outsider status, refusing a congressional pension in addition the health care coverage that members of Congress are entitled to receive.

“I've done a contract with my district,” Schilling said. “I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay raises, and my family and I are bringing our own health care to Washington, D.C. And my dad taught me as a kid to lead by example -- Congress should not have anything better than the American people.”

As for the pizza, he allowed that Washington has some decent slices, giving a thumbs-up to the house specialty at We the Pizza, a new Capitol Hill hot spot.

But he was thumbs-down on the notion of a Sarah Palin presidential bid, Schilling’s ties to tea party activists notwithstanding.

“I think she has got a tough hill to hoe,” Schilling said. “I don't know if Sarah is presidential material. I think that when she was brought on as the vice president pick, the McCain campaign was basically fallen over, and she came in and livened up the party. I don't know if she is presidential material or not.”

Schilling also praised GOP House leadership for “listening to us” newly elected members.

“There are a lot of things that are going to be totally different this time around,” he said. “We're not coming here to make friends.”