Salt Lake Crawler

Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch hates any sort of new government-managed health plan. You know, socialism stuff like the public option announced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid?

"Simply putting new window dressing on the failed idea of a government plan is absolutely the wrong way to address a critical national issue that affects every American life and every American business."

But Democratic New York Congressman Anthony Weiner had his staff do a little research and found that Hatch, Sen. Bob Bennett and other Republicans who oppose the public option, have no problem in accepting it in another form — Medicare.

“Even in a town known for hypocrisy, this list of 55 Members of Congress deserve some sort of prize. They apparently think the public option is ok for them, but not anyone else.”

 

Hatch this week sneered (as only Orrin can sneer) at the public option (not Medicare one, of course) as an "entitlement":

"Make no mistake about it, once this entitlement has been implemented, it will be impossible to dismantle."

Weiner lists the 151 congressional recipients of Medicare who oppose the health-care reform public option here.