CrankyCon presents some balance on the lie accusations
Here.
You know, the other thing that should be pointed out is that Obama played the "people are going to die" card last night also, claiming that every day his so-called health care reform proposals go unimplemented there are people dying under the current, horrible, outmoded system. If this is true, why is the point at which the whole travesty will go into effect post-dated to 2013? Oh yeah, that's after Obama's glorious re-election. That way we won't know the effects of the reform until he has secured a second term. So the question is this: will congress or the president be responsible for all the uninsured deaths between passage of the bill and the start date? Unclear.
Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteThe complete over-reaction to what Wilson did (not that I necessarily approve) detracts from the hyper-partisanship of that woeful presidential address, and that's what really bugs me.
Also, judging from the reaction, you would have thought that Wilson spent five minutes verbally harassing Obama from the floor of the House. It was one second of expressed anger, and for that Wilson is being pilloried as the worst human being to have ever set foot in Congress. I mean a Senator from South Carolina once caned a man - let's have some perspective here.
Cranky, I could be totally off-base, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this incident will actually help the anti-Zero / anti-"health"-care cause. The media may be trying to spin this incident as the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, but Americans aren't that stupid. I think most Americans, hearing that this guy yelled "You lie," are secretly chuckling and thinking, "Right on!"
ReplyDeleteI don't know - it probably won't move the needle too much in either direction. The only people who really feel passionately one way or the other about it already had their minds made up, and the rest probably will go back to ignoring the news except to catch the Daily Show.
ReplyDeleteI will guarantee this: for every dollar his opponent will raise as a result of this, Wilson will get about three times that amount.