Microcosm Of Madness

Meet freshman GOP Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who sums up the Tea Party movement better than I could ever do.

Maryland physician Andy Harris (R) just soundly defeated Frank Kratovil, one of the most endangered Democrats on Capitol Hill going into the November election. And he did it in large part by railing against 'Obamacare' and pledging to repeal Health Care Reform. But when he showed on Capitol Hill today for an orientation for incoming members of Congress and their staffs, he had a different question: Where's my government health care?

According to Glenn Thrush of Politico, Harris created a stir at the orientation meeting by demanding to know why he had to wait a month after he was sworn in in January for his government-subsidized health care to kick in. After responding in a huff, he even asked if there was some way he could buy into the government care in advance, seemingly thinking there might be a government program similar to the so-called 'public option' championed by progressive Democrats in 2009.

According to an unnamed congressional staffer quoted by Thrush, Harris stood up at the meeting "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." 

And I'm sure he has plenty of constituents who haven't had affordable health care in 28 months, or much longer.  The guy who ran against Obamacare has no problem with government health care if he gets it.  He's a Congressman, after all.  The rest of his constituents are just stupid schmucks, and health care is their own problem.

Andy Harris got his.  The rest of you?  Tighten your belts more.  We've got health care for Congress to pay for.  And that's your entire Tea Party mindset right there.  We hate government!  Now where's our entitlement money, Medicare, and monthly check?