The country is (allegedly) at war. All the illegal aliens should have been given 48 hours to clear out starting the afternoon of 9/11.

This buffoon engaged in treason by voting for Bush’s piece of garbage.

And he’s a moron for doing so. His constituents need to give him the boot.

An army friend many moons ago during a discussion of the shady doings of Richard Daly Sr. in Chicago, said to me, “Yeah, we know Daly is a crook, but he’s our crook.”

And so if my liar says someone else is a liar, is that someone else a liar? I confess I’m prepared to believe anyone who has the nerve to stand up and call Comrade O a liar. I think it’s because of my latent racism. My analyst thinks I’m just gullible.

Seriously, it’s about who we want to disbelieve the most. We tend to want to uphold our faction. But in reality, a lie is a lie no matter who says it. I think if we had somebody in congress stand up and tell the truth in plain English, it would confuse us. We would tend to ignore it. In fact we do ignore it every time Ron Paul speaks.

I confess, too, that I’m disgusted with the lot of them. I’m just more frightened of Obama than Joe Wilson at the moment.

Clyde Wilson over at Chronicles says about this fiasco,”Our two most acute foreign observers, Tocqueville and Solzhenitsyn, as well as numerous native men of perception like Mencken, have observed that the most fundamental, pervasive, and powerful motive of Americans is to be a respectable member of the herd. This defect of national character in itself severely limits the process of debate and deliberation that is necessary for genuine democratic government. And it explains the course of the Wilson/Obama controversy.”

Tom Fleming seems to agree when he writes:
“The outrage over Joe Wilson’s outburst is absurd. Of course, a grown man should know better than to blurt out whatever is on his mind, especially when the social context forbids such a demonstration, but Wilson is an American under 70, and it is unreasonable to expect anyone my age or younger to behave with decorum and restraint. Neither the President of the US nor the Senate Majority Leader nor the Vice President nor the Speaker of the House nor anyone in the national media knows how to behave. Then why take out after this poor devil? If anyone in America has been deluded into thinking you could make a democracy or a republic out of such materials, he will probably not be “wised up” by this little episode.”

And finally Pat Buchanan:

Not only did Obama win the night, his victory was capped by a gauche outburst of “You lie!” from South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, which stunned a national TV audience and embarrassed his party.

Wilson’s wife, Roxanne, asked him after he left the chamber, “Who’s the nut that hollered out, ‘You lie!’”

As you say, “She oughta know!”

Tyrants with different tastes is all, IMO.

Drat! Aren’t us gentiles allowed any brilliance? Oh well, I guess brilliance requires some hammering.

I wish some more of that brilliance was applied to fixing the banking model(hint, hint).

I thought we elected people to represent us, not a party. Wrong, huh?

Now here is the Section 152 that you cited: ” the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall … promulgate such regulations..”

Now what is promulgating a regulation – whereby one can be fined… by disobeying – other than a legislative power?? Of course, the ENTIRE bill, like 99% of current legislation (enacted without reading, I may add), would be unconstitutional since it is not constitutionally authorized EVEN IF Congress enacted the “regulations”. It additionally violates the 10th Amendment. Other than the 3 constitutional objections AND that it will make health care worse AND bankrupt the country quicker AND eviscerate human liberty on medical matters, I don’t see any other major flaws in the health care bill.

The reason that the Joe Wilson Republican-Statists leave themselves vulnerable to paranoid accusations of racism is because they favor the same Obammunism, Romney-style or Bush-style. Even “health savings accounts”, less odious, violates the principle that a person’s money belongs to that person and the government has no authority to tell me how, when, and on what to save/spend MY money.