Addington "Call Me `Joe`" Wilson, yet Another GOP Hypocrite

In that while he is railing about the government health care, he has been taking full advantage of government-supplied (ie, single payer) health care and health insurance for most of his adult life.

As a retired Army National Guard colonel, Wilson gets a lot of benefits (one of which, apparently, was not a full appreciation of the customs, traditions, and courtesies that mandate respect for one's commander in chief). And with four sons in the armed services, the entire Wilson brood has enjoyed multiple generations of free military medical coverage, known as TRICARE

But he is sort of consistent, in a sick and twisted way, for as a lawmaker, Wilson has never let an opportunity slip by to try and slash benefits for active-duty military and for veterans:

Wilson voted 11 times against health care for veterans in eight years, even as he voted "aye" for the Iraq War (during the debate on the war vote, he even called one Democrat "viscerally anti-American"─several times). He voted to cut veterans' benefits─not his own─to make room for President George W. Bush's tax cuts. He repeatedly voted for budgets that slashed funding to the Veterans Administration and TRICARE. And perhaps most bizarrely, he refused─repeatedly─to approve Democratic-led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan─and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so.

So let's sum up, shall we? According to Wilson: A whomping humongus tax cut for the rich is a good thing, providing benefits for our servicemen/women and for veterans is a bad thing.

But also note that Wislon has been against reducing benefits to legislators. So he is just another Wingnut hypocrite.