Can you believe this?

Last night, Politico’s Glenn Thrush reported on a curious incident in which Representative-elect Andy Harris (R-MD), a Republican freshman elected to Congress on his promise fight “government-run or government-mandated insurance,” “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.”

According to aides in the room, Harris “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.” 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.”