Tea Party Palatine

This was promising to see from Joe:

"New York Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing Republican members of Congress who oppose last year's healthcare legislation to decline health coverage for themselves and their families. 

Democrats have been trying to cast Republican members' acceptance of federal health benefits as hypocritical, as they seek to repeal last year's health care legislation, and got a boost this morning from Rep.-elect Joe Walsh, an Illinois Freshman who told CNN this morning that he's keeping a promise not to accept health care benefits, despite his wife's pre-existing condition.

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Walsh declined, in the CNN interview, to suggest his colleagues are hypocrites. His own decision appears to be independent of his opposition to the new federal law.

"This is my decision," he said. "I believe there are a couple of other freshman that feel the same way. i feel I was sent to Washingtonto be something different."

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0111/Schumer_House_Republicans_should_forego_health_care.html?showall