Selfish.

Much has been made of the incredibly-obvious absurdity of how can Congressmen hold such disdain for government-run healthcare while enjoying it themselves. This dude HERE has the idea of cutting them off such coverage, pointing out that a personality quirk of the GOP is an inability to empathize with anybody's suffering unless they have personally been touched themselves:

A constricted compassion that arises solely from personal experience has somehow come to seem peculiarly Republican. The most famous examples include former first lady Nancy Reagan's crusade for stem-cell research and former Sen. Pete Domenici's campaign for mental-health insurance parity. While both were admirable and courageous efforts that resulted in important legislation, they were cast as narrow exceptions to conservative ideology -- exceptions grounded strictly in personal misfortune.

Only after her husband began to disappear into the twilight of Alzheimer's disease did Mrs. Reagan perceive the value of the kind of government action they both had spent a lifetime denigrating. Government was the problem, not the solution, according to the Reaganite dogma. But then Nancy realized that federal support for stem-cell research might someday bring relief to patients like her beloved Ronnie, and anguished families like hers. Suddenly, spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on something other than Star Wars wasn't such a terrible idea.

The example of Cindy McCain is also fucking sickening.

Republicans are unmoved by the idea that 40,000 people are dying every year because of no health insurance, since extending help to these people would belie their own brave "pull yourself up by your bootstraps, unless it's ME that needs help, then give me some money" credo. Meanwhile the thought of a single person being killed by a terrorist prompts a no-holds barred, empty-the-coffers policy of spending. It's as if Republicans can envision themselves the victims of terrorism, but not disease or trauma. Interesting.

Also why nothing will move on global warming until some Republican's kid drowns due to a melted polar icecap, I reckon.