Simply stated, you can't call someone who won more than 300 electoral votes a tyrant.
You can't claim the government will take your guns away when you are allowed to carry one to a town hall meeting with your member of Congress.
You can't say you don't like big government or paying taxes AND support our troops at the same time.
And of course, you can't say a public option is socialism when you are on, or about to use/collect, Medicare and Social Security.
If you do any of the above, you are stupid. And a conservative Republican.
Hopefully, this far right hysteria will back fire - both on the Hill when it's time to vote on health care and energy legislation this fall, but more importantly with the average American vote.
A few more rants:
- You can't yell 'You Lie' to someone who is NOT lying (that makes YOU a liar);
- Did anyone ever yell 'You Lie' to the recent president who DID lie, about going to war?;
- The last time a South Carolinian got this mad - with a pent up rage sparked by losing an election - was 1861. But I guess this is progress. Then residents of the Palmetto State fired upon Fort Sumter and the American flag, this time they 'only' heckled the President.
- You can never - ever - give a white southerner (and by that I mean Protestant, not Catholic, Jewish and of course Greek) from the deep south - SC, GA, MS, AL, LA - the benefit of the doubt. At best, they are stupid, at worst they are racist.
- One last blast at Wilson and his home state. To me, you can draw a straight line from slavery to Fort Sumter, through Jim Crow to Strom 'Raped My Colored Help and Fathered a Child" Thurmond, around to the Hiking Adulterer Hypocrite Governor and finally end up at Rep. Joe Wilson. Quite a state.
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This is amazing. Great post!
The comparisons between the Dems getting grumpy with Bush at his State of the Union speeches to the "you lie" comment really annoys me too. It's not an excuse. And to be clear, at that point in Bush's presidency he had misled us into a losing war, rammed the Patriot Act down our throats, authorized spying on millions of Americans, oversaw a military that allowed Abu Ghraib to happen, bungled Hurricane Katrina, ran roughshod over nearly every environmental law we have, and pretty much ruined our standing throughout the world.
Can the Republicans list one single failure under Obama's first 9 months that comes even remotely close to being has horrible as any of the above?
Excellent points, and that's one shameful list. It's been written about by others, but I think the reason the right is so stupidly violent and reactionary is they realize they are losing the country. I just wish the Dems would be bolder in pushing back.
(sigh of relief) Now...this is the Athan I like to hear from! Somebody's cooking somethin' Greek in the kitchen...I can smell the smoke!
I only wish Obama had called Wilson out when he burped up his little opinion. A good old fashioned floor-wipin' with the facts would have been good USA tv drama. Alas, our President's actions reminded us all that in America you can say your peace...even if it's a paranoid, childish outburst.
"You can never - ever - give a white southerner (and by that I mean Protestant, not Catholic, Jewish and of course Greek) from the deep south - SC, GA, MS, AL, LA - the benefit of the doubt. At best, they are stupid, at worst they are racist." INDEED!!
You can't say a public option is socialism and a presidential address is indoctrination if your children are in a public school, either.
On a related point, you should be particularly wary of decrying socialism if you attended state-funded colleges and universities for your degrees and used federal grants to pay for your doctoral research. (Yes, I'm looking at you, Newt.)
I think Fran Liebowitz said it best in her essay on teenagers: “It is bad form to denounce your parents as oppressors when your mouth is full of the oppressors' roast beef.”
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