Congressman Joe Wilson Claims Pre-Existing Condition: Tourette's!
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=8733

By the way, where was the Sergeant-at-Arms? Doesn't he carry a stick or something to smack people with?

Instead he ended up speaking to Rahm Emanuel. Oh, to have been listening in on that f@(&ing conversation.

Nearly coughed my chips out my nose at that image! I'm guessing that Mr. Wilson has a new orifice tonight, courtesy of the Rahm.

"Wilson apparently called the White House to apologize to Obama directly. Instead he ended up speaking to Rahm Emanuel. Oh, to have been listening in on that f@(&ing conversation."

I rarely laugh out loud with no one except the dogs around, but that has to be one of the funniest things I've read in a long, long time!!! Thank you. I needed that. (Even if it did mightily confuse the dogs...)

I shouted out "liar" from my couch a few times during that speech. While Mr. Wilsons actions were far from appropriate...I'm just glad someone there had the courage to say it out loud!

Ended up speaking to Rahm Emanuel.

too funny

Oh boy Rahm probably put the fear of God in him.

Thank You, South Carolina!

Jon Stewart will have to edit this clip when he returns:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-3-2009/thank-you--south-carolina-

Let's have a two-fer and help out the people of South Carolina...let's send Gov. Sanford and Rep. Wilson on a long trip...either Argentina or the Appalachian Trail will do fine!

Uh, if the President were actually lying, I don't think anyone would care as much if Wilson happened to point it out in a less than "respectful" way. What's not cool in this instance is that Wilson is actually simply wrong.

How is that only 90% of an apology?

Come on now. He can't help it. He's from South Carolina.

As I wrote this morning in a blog, that is NOT an apology. Wilson is laying grounds for his outburst. The president made him do it. AND not only grounds, but he deliberately misquotes the president in the non-apology:

listening to the President's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill

He implies the president IS covering illegal immigrants. He goes on to say he disagrees with this statement. The reference is not to the president's original "not covered" statement, but to his own non-apology distortion.

And who do you think will be the poster boy on Hammity, Blech, and Retch? What will they focus their bright white media light on for the next news cycle? They'll ignore everything else and whip their crazies into a frenzy over illegal immigrants being covered in the president's health care bill. Yes... now grandma's not only being killed by President Obama, he's going to hand over her estate to ... gasp!... illegal immigrants.

Is it Halloween yet?

I being a Caucasian wonder if such an outlandish comment would have occurred if the President was Caucasian.

btw: http://www.joewilson.house.gov/ has been offline since his shout out last nite. "This site is down for maintenance. Please check back again soon." I guess no news is good news. I will email Addison and let him know what this aging, admittedly Dem, southern belle thinks of his "courtly manners". I'll do it if it takes a month.

In latest news, Rep. Wilson has had his office space taken for storage of copies of the Congressional Record from the 1960s. He and his staff have had their furniture moved into his new office in the historic 18th century House watercloset located in the southeast corner of the deepest basement under the Capitol. Congressional sanitation engineers told this reporter that the odors seeping up from the filled in pits has greatly dissipated but is still noticeable.

Lucy, it is unequivocal.

U.S. Representative Joe Wilson lied last night.

When President Obama was speaking before the Congress, he not only had to advocate for bipartisanship, he had to correct the record on lies which have been spread about health care proposals. One of those lies, was the lie that Democratic health care proposals, including his, would cover illegal aliens.

All of August, we have heard the Teabaggers screaming, "Read the Bill." We have to assume that Joe Wilson read the bill. The bill in question setting up the public option does so through "affordability credits."

Section 246 of the Bill is captioned as follows:
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"Sec. 246. No Federal Payment for Undocumented Aliens."
Then Section 246 reads as follows:

"Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States."

Joe Wilson said that President Obama was lying. By doing so he lied.

That seems pretty straightforward! I think Wilson owes us an explanation for his reaction. Until we resolve these differences, we will never reach a bipartisan solution on Healthcare reform. I'm a Republican and still liked what I heard yesterday but must admit all of these programs seem a bit 'ideal' - will they pencil?

What will the public option really cost individuals? I work for a staffing agency and we do offer low cost coverage that costs about $25 a week for the employees, but the reality is most uninsured people live paycheck to paycheck so easily less than 1% option for it in my company. If that's any indication, when we make it a federal law to require everyone to opt in to an insurance plan, will there be outrage? And if they opt not to participate and become injured - no ER will refuse them coverage because there are laws against that.. so then what, we fine them? They have no money. The hospital will have to eat the costs as they do now.. so as Obama said, we all pay for that when that happens.

What about employers ultimately dropping their employees when the public option is in place as the country's insurance safety net? It would obviously save employers thousands to not have to contribute that overhead on a monthly basis and thus making them profitable! So if companies start doing that, the pool of people in the public option plan will grow overnight (a plan regulated by the government, right? look at our postal service, it's cheap and now bankrupt..?) and then, will we see the fall of private insurance..? that will mean tens of thousands more will be unemployed that work in that industry.

That's scary.

Thanks for siting the 246 Bill - we all need to have all the facts!