My congressman, Charlie Norwood, voted against the Medicare bill saying he wasn't elected in 94 by his constituents to increase the size and largesse of government:
“I don’t believe that I, or anyone in the Class of ’94, was elected to burden the taxpayer with another open-ended entitlement. I actually believe we were elected to fight to the last to stop this type of entitlement. That is why I am voting ‘no’ today.”
- Charlie Norwood, June 26, 2003
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ga09_norwood/6_26_03hr1.html That's what a republican should do.
Amen to that. Sad to see there are only a few vestiges of 1994 left in the GOP.