Hooray for Congressman Joe Walsh. The Tea Party/Sarah Palin-back candidate who beat lefty Melissa Bean in a close Eight Congressional district race for keeping his campaign promises not to feed at the Congressional trough.
Rep.-elect Jo
e Walsh of Illinois has become the third freshman Republican to turn down the gold-plated government-sponsored health insurance plan available to lawmakers. “I don’t think congressmen should get pensions or cushy healthcare plans,” he told reporters.
The other two incoming GOP freshmen shunning their government health insurance are Reps. Bobby Schilling (R-17) of Illinois, another Tea Party candidate, and Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
Democrats, behaving petty and vindictive as they usually do when they lose, are pressuring Republicans in Congress who oppose Obamacare to drop their own government coverage. That pressure grew after Rep.-elect Andy Harris, R-Md., reportedly complained in a private November meeting that his government healthcare benefits didn’t start until next year.
Can you imagine the mainstream coverage – Good Morning America, Letterman – this would have generated if these three political newbies were Democrats backed by MoveOn.org and say, Nancy Pelosi?
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