A Tea Party Congressman Who Could Be a Test Case (Joe Walsh)

[steve2470]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/us/29cncwarren.html

If the lovely village of Fox Lake was a perfect hideout for Al Capone, it was also a fitting hangout Sunday for Joe Walsh, a law-abiding political provocateur, and provided a window onto a creeping long-term peril for Republicans.

Mr. Walsh, 49, is a freshman Tea Party congressman whose public meetings, like the one in G.O.P.-leaning McHenry County, rival “Law and Order” reruns in frequency as he presses a simple and unsettling agenda: cut, cut, cut government spending.

“We’ve got a government we can’t afford, and we’re broke!” he declared with brio to a good turnout of 125 in Lakefront Park on a recent gorgeous afternoon.

He work khaki pants and a pale purple-and-white striped, open-collared dress shirt while he talked about the improbable issue of the day: raising the debt ceiling.

[salin]

1. what he didn't say...

and I know *alot* about holding debt and unpaid legal obligations.

Jerk!