Posted by
RME KRNL on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:22:27 AM
I was reading my RealClearPolitics email bulletin earlier tonight and came across an article by E. J. Dionne, political commentator and op-ed columnist for the Washington Post, who wrote an article entitled "Joe Wilson and Our Character" in which good ole E. J. made some pretty exaggerated liberal claims.
Here's my tempered response to E. J.'s tomfoolery, uh, opinion piece. (No, this really is my tempered response. You should have seen what I first wrote.)
E. J., do you live in a cave? And is it on a mountaintop far, far away? Or is it just that your liberal, elitist nose is stuck so far up in the ether, or maybe Obama's butt, that all the oxygen has been shut off to your brain?
You are transparently (unlike the Obama administration) so biased that you are not even, as Lenin coined the phrase for those who sympathized with the Ruskies enough to be used by them, a "useful idiot." You fall more into the category of "useless idiot."
"Rep. Joe Wilson deserves all the condemnation he's received for his boorish behavior during President Obama's address on health care."
Well, I don't know about all, but he does deserve some. That was the wrong time and place to call Obama out for lying. But lying he was. According to the Heritage Foundation, which quoted exactly what Obama said and then presented corresponding contrary and refuting facts, Obama lied about at least ten main points being proposed for his so-called health care/insurance "plan."
And I think Wilson should have apologized for his outburst, too, but it should have been an Obama administration style apology -- "I'm sorry, Mr. President, but my passion for the truth momentarily overwhelmed me as I heard you lying to the American people and I'm sorry if you were offended."
"No Democrat ever shouted 'You lie!' during a George W. Bush speech to Congress."
No, that's true -- probably because none of them individually had the cojones, like Joe Wilson did -- but Democrats did boo Bush in unison during his State of the Union Address in 2005, as well as collectively showing other forms of disrepect at other times. And I don't recall ANY of them EVER apologizing for ANY of it, either. So, Dems, take your feigned indignation and false claim to an apology and shove it, as we say, where the sun don't shine.
So, which is worse, one frustrated congressman impetuously shouting out one two-word phrase of "speaking truth to power" (itself a phrase which liberals usually love to use) or a chorus of elected officials more cowardly booing the US president in unison while part of a more anonymous crowd? Both are unquestionably indecorous, but the first at least seems courageous, while the latter seems more like the gang of school boys hanging together to hide which one threw the first rock.
"For the record, Wilson's premise is itself untrue: The framers of the health care bill did all they could to make sure it wouldn't help illegal immigrants. Yes, a few might slip through the cracks and -- horrors! -- get assistance. But the health reformers wrote language as tough as it could be to make sure this wouldn't happen, short of creating provisions so draconian that some who are here legally would also be denied coverage."
That may or may not all be true but -- horrors! -- it (probably intentionally) begs the real question, because, also for the record, they refused to include any enforcement language requiring people applying for the health care to prove their US citizenship and therefore eligibility. In fact, also for the record and just to put an exclamation point on it, the Democrats flatly rejected a Republican amendment specifically requiring such an eligibility check. And if, as Democrats and Obama all say, there was no intent to enable illegal immigrants to take advantage of the health care "plan," why not include legislative language specifically saying that they were barred?
"And what evidence is there that Obama is tearing down our 'institutions and traditions'? There is none, unless you see it as an affront to our traditions that we have our first president whose father was born in Kenya, or that the American people decided to elect someone other than a conservative as our commander in chief."
Okay, E. J., now you're really scaring me, because you've gone beyond the normal pale of just being a biased liberal masquerading as an "objective journalist" and into a nether world in which you write for a major newspaper but really don't seem to know what the heck is going on. Maybe we should scratch that earlier reference to your living in a cave (bin Laden does that and even he seems to know what's going on) and consider instead that you've either been living under a rock or had your head buried in the sand. Or maybe, giving you the benefit of the doubt, you DO know what's really going on but you just want to convince US that WE don't.
But, aside from all that, what does where Obama's father comes from, even if it is Kenya, have to do with anything? S-a-a-a-y, you don't have some kind of hang-up about Obama being half- black and half-white, do you? Hey, just asking. But you do know that it's very UN-liberal and UN-diversified of you if you do, right? Oh, and I do think we've had other than conservative, or even Republican, commanders-in-chief before, too, so what's your point about that? Did you have one, or did it just sound nice to say?
"And what evidence is there that Obama is tearing down our 'institutions and traditions'?"
How about going abroad and saying we are not a Christian nation, that, in fact, we are a Muslim nation, just for starters? How about increasing the national debt within six months more than all the US presidents in over 200 years before him combined? How about just arbitrarily abrogating over 200 years of US contract law? How about taking over several parts of the country's private sector so far, undermining free enterprise and capitalism and now seeking to take over all of our health care?
"The far right has decided that extremism in assailing Obama is no vice."
And Obama and the far left have decided that radicalism in transforming our country from a Republic into a socialist state is their mandate.
Obama, in part of his somewhat contentious speech before the joint session of Congress, said that he would "call out" those who lied about so-called ObamaCare. Well, Mr. President -- and also to your apologist, if not one of your propagandists, E. J. Dionne -- what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
You want to get into "calling out"? Okay. Gloves off. Bring it!