Joe Wilson has a race on his hands now: The Swamp
The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
Posted September 11, 2009 3:30 PM

The Swamp

by Mark Silva and updated

Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican congressman from South Carolina who called President Barack Obama a liar in public - and later apologized to the White Houseprivately - is turning to his supporters for backing as a Democratic rival attempts to make hay.

"I let my emotions get the best of me,'' Wilson says in a Website video soliciting campaign contributions. "It was wrong, and I apologized to the president shortly afterward, and he acknowledged my sincerity.''

Suddenly, Wilson may have a race on his hands.

His Democratic rival back home, Marine veteran Rob Miller, has been raking in his own campaign contributions online since Wilson yelled out, "You lie,'' at Obama during the president's address to a joint session of Congress. The president was maintaining that illegal immigrants will not benefit from the health-care reform that he is seeking. Opponents insist that he cannot guarantee that.

Wilson and Miller are virtually tied in a new survey run by Public Policy Polling - 44-43 - in the aftermath of the shout-out. Nearly two-thirds of voters in Wilson's district say they disapproved of Wilson's action.

"In a matter of seconds Joe Wilson turned himself from a safe incumbent into one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country for 2010," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling.

The Republicans fundraisers say Wilson has raised more than $700,000 since yelling "You lie!" during Obama's address. Andy Sere, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, said today that contributions have been pouring in since the congressman's outburts.

The Democrats say the same thing for their horse: Jessica Santillo of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says Miller has received more than $875,000 from 24,000 donors nationwide for his second bid to unseat Wilson (Miller fell fall short last time).

"I will not be muzzled'' on the health-care bill, however, the Republican says. "I will speak up and speak loudly.''

In his fundraising pitch, Wilson insists that he needs help to fight "government-run health care.''

"Health care is a matter of life and death for so many,'' the congressman says. "I choose life.''



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SCREW THE REPUBLICANS!!!!


They don't deserve to be treated with respect when they act like petulant children -which is what they have done ever since they got their butts handed to them in the most recent election.


The Dems got elected running on health care reform and they should do it with or without the Repugnuts.


The people spoke in November and they told the Republican party to go pound sand!



His Democratic rival back home, Marine veteran Rob Miller....

Get ready for the Swift Boat lunatics to start their engines.. Oh wait, they've run out of gas!! LOL!!


As bad as Republican Joe Wilson's behavior was last night, look on the bright side -- at least he wasn't carrying a sign that said "Obama=Hitler". Or a loaded rifle....like the goons who make up todays version of the Republican "base" do.


Then again, rather than look at the bright side, just donate to Rob Miller, his 2010 opponent. Thus far today he's raising close to $1K per minute. Let's keep that momentum going!
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http://www.actblue.com/page/kossacks4miller
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What Wilson did is not only pathetic and, unfortunately, typical of todays Republican party, it's also against House rules which means he should be censored.


Wilson was also lying (big surprise!). There has been no proposal--not the President's, not the House, not the Senate, not the Democratic Party--to cover illegal immigrants.


Wilson is a liar. He apologized for "incivility"...but, He hasn't apologized for LYING!



Wilson's childish Rethuglican behavior is unprecedented in all the long and dreary history of recent American presidents. Many people are upset. I mean, when George W. Bush was in there didn't the Democrats give him standing ovations without ever knowing why? On January 28, 2003, Mr. Bush told a joint session of Congress: - "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."


Did anyone heckle Our Dear Leader W. when he told that whopper?


Fellow Americans, do not despair!


The dignity of our great deliberative bodies is intact.


This incident is just a little misunderstanding. You see, Mr. Wilson thought he was sitting in the South Carolina Legislature listening to a sermon on "family values" by Republican Gov. Mark Sanford.


Now, doesn't that make you feel better?


So Wilson is a 'Deather', a 'Death Panelist'. No surprise that he personifies the fringe that has become the Republican party - and he represents the reason Republicans are in sharp decline nationwide. This guy also personifies the reason for the sharp decline in the civility and chivalry of the Confederate heritage he represents.

Wilson deserves to be dumped by voters he represents.


For Wilson to turn his blatant act of disrespect towards the president into a fund raising video is absurd and unconscionable.

http://www.political-buzz.com/


BTW, Mark, the Dem-led Senate has just attempted today to close the illegal alien loophole in ObamaCare that you, and the rest of the Obama media, claimed didn't exist. See http://hotair.com for the story that's all over the news.


What Wilson did was not only pathetic - it was something that a petulant 5 year old would do when they can't get their way.


Congratulations Republipukes! You've now permenently lost the ability to be taken seriously by anyone anywhere!



As Obana rating keeps droping Joe's will get better.


"I will not be muzzled'' on the health-care bill, however, the Republican says. "I will speak up and speak loudly.''

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...and stupidly. Loud and Stupid, that's today's GOP. And proud of it.


How about Joe Wilson's weasel-worded non-apology? He apologized to The White House. Not to President Obama, but to the White House. Seriously? What an arsehat.


It's the same Republican repeated and offensive practice of referring to the President as "Mr. Obama". Not Mr. President; not President Obama. As "Mr. Obama".


The arsehat also managed to reiterate his belief about covering illegal aliens in his apology:
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"This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill." - Republican Joe Wilson


Notice he apologized for acting like an idiot, but not about being one.



As Obana rating keeps droping Joe's will get better.

Posted by: Inky | September 11, 2009 4:49 PM
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I'm not to worried about "Obana's rating", meanwhile, back here in the real world - Obama's ratings have been going up at an incredible rate starting with the Repugs stupid "keep our kids home from school day" and continuing through to Joe Wilson's childish nationally televised temper tantrum Thurs night.


Heckuva Job Wingnuts - I knew you would screw it up, it was only a matter of time.



First, Dems booed Bush in 2005, at the State of the Union address. I guess booing is petulant, only when the other side does it.

Second, Wilson will probably win. He's in a solid GOP district. IN the meantime, Dems are throwing money away on this race, which means less to use on other races.

And finally, I'll remind people of what liberals said when Samantha Powers got fired for calling HRC a "monster." "But she IS a monster," the Huffington Posters of the world all said.

What is that saying about what goes around, comes around?

Signed, a proud Hillary backer.


Why doesn't GI Joe have the Confederate flag he fought for so diligently flying in the background?
This is the same dumb arse that slammed Strom Thurman's black love child for revealing her identity. This guy is an embarrassment to the country, which makes him popular with the Pug "base".


In his fundraising pitch, Wilson insists that he needs help to fight "government-run health care.''


Then he should be a man of principle and forgo the government-run health care he says his entire family uses. After all, he's the same hypocrite who voted against health care for veterans, but obviously has no problem draining the same military care for himself. Of course, his ignorant supporters are devoid of the critical thinking skills necessary to realize they're being pimped.


This just in for the T-Bagging/Barfer/BrownShirtTownHallMob morons.

Check out George W. Bush's death panels!!

http://www.springerlink.com/content/n420173723185317/

Ole' GWB workin' the Texas Soylent Green option.


Joe Wilson, the goober Republican from South Carolina (I'm Shocked!...not), is just another "good ol' boy" where in the morning these married "family values" Republican men preach to you that there should be prayer in our schools and in the evening they are on their cell phones setting up a date with their other women/prostitute on the side. "We are Liars and Hypocrites" should be the 2009 Republican party motto. I'm not surprised at all that Wilson felt compelled to yell like he was some toothless redneck rube at a Friday night football game during President Obama's speech. Wilson is a hater not a debater, just like most of his fellow Republicans are.
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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/gop_lawmakers_graphic_sex-bragging_caught_on_tape.php
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'Hey Joe, what ya doin with that respirator plug in your hand.
Say, hey Joe, what ya doin with that big lie hangin on your soul.
Gonna lie your way to Hell, yeah you are boy,
Gonna kill your soul, yes you are yeah'

Check out George Bush's 'pull the plug law' of 1999. Leave it to Texas.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001620.html


Hey Palin; Here's actual Republicans trying to kill real people.


Hey Zwampies and Mark!

Google theez '1999 Texas futile treatment law', or some vareeation, und zee what yoo geet.

As uszueal, zee Repubicans 'ave no legs doo stand on.

Mark,
I zink yoo may weesh to boast a panel on zee Boosh death banel lawz vrom 1999. Eet may edukate dee iganorants heer.


Shame on you French and Lenin. How can you equate needed efficiencies with death warrants. Bush was doing what he had to do, due to fiscal imperatives. This is different than the Obama death panels.


Joe Wilson, a Republican, shouted two words, rudely, inappropriately, during Mustapha’s address. He apologized. How many times did democrats call the Prince of Darkness a liar and many other things, far worse, far more crude. When will Reid, Schumer, Durbin, Rockefeller, and the rest of the America Hate-ing Leftists be offering their apologies?


There are many stories here in Swampland, Mark Silva, on Joe Wilson. An incredible number of stories. Never in the history of Western civilization has two words resonated so strongly in the highly selective reporting of news by the unbiased, trustworthy MSM. General McAuliffe only said “Nuts!” to the Germans during the Battle of The Bulge. This far exceeds that.


So, where are the ACORN stories??? In addition to stealing elections, they have branched out into advocating and advising on tax fraud, prostitution, child slavery, and child prostitution, and even offering a DBA name for said highly illegal enterprises. When will some of those stories be showing up???


Liberalism is stranger than any Stephen King / Oliver Stone work of fiction. What rational person could ever make any sense of it? Is it possible to retain a soul and be one? What proof, in the year 2009, would even remotely exist to support the affirmative?


Education and Journalism ~ there is no lower degree form conferred in any university in any state in America.


Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

During the president’s Thursday address to a joint session of congress, Rep. Joe Wilson (R. SC) could have yelled Fabricator! or Dissembler! or Fibber! or Prevaricator! or Falsifier!

However, none of those alternatives would have had quite the impact of what Wilson did blurt out, namely the fine old, straightforward, Middle English word, ”Liar!” although all the above synomyms are applicable.

What provoked his outburst was Obama’s lie that Obamacare wouldn’t be offered to illegal aliens when he knew, or should have known, that yes, indeed, illegals would be covered.

Was it boorish, rude, impolite to accuse the president of the United States a liar in such a forum and on national television? Yep, I guess, but it was right on target.

Then, too, Obama calling those who believe that “death panels” lurk in the bowels of Obamacare “liars” during that same address was equally boorish, rude, and impolite, but we haven’t heard any uproar over that even though those people are correct.

(Nor was there an uproar over Democrats calling GWB a liar for 8 years nor over their nasty treatment of President George H.W. Bush during his address to a joint session on October 1st, 1989.)

They won’t be called “death panels,” especially since Sarah Palin was one of the first to use that term and has been ridiculed and abused. The Obamians wouldn’t give her the credit.

The administration’s PC description is “end of life counseling” and “advanced care planning consultations” wherein elderly and/or gravely ill patients will be required to sit down with their government doctors and said doctors will “counsel” them.

Those consults will cover such topics as living wills, durable powers of attorney, health proxies, all of which would be better covered by lawyers rather than physicians.

Then, what other purpose could those consults serve?

To say they would serve to shuffle the very ill off to the Great Beyond may seem insensitive, but let’s call a spade a spade.

Over in the UK where the Brit version of Obamacare has been in place for decades, the NHS has “progressed” to the point that it “encourages doctors and other health care staff to consider removing medication, fluids and other treatments that no longer benefit the patient:” http://bit.ly/Rio1i.

In other words, to use a bad word for Obamacare-Mengeles, the NHS euthanizes those deemed too expensive to treat as decided by panels of “doctors and other health care staff.” Under penalty of being put on a death track, don’t dare call them death panels!

Will Obamacare follow that same path? Do ducks swim and do politicians lie? Is it a great leap from end of life counselling to pulling the plug on grandma when Obama has pledged to reduce the costs of our health care?

“Liar” is a pejorative and pungent word which should be understood in its context. Sarah Palin didn’t lie about death panels, Obama did.

Rep. Joe Wilson was also accurate in his description of the president as a liar and there was no need for his apology. Obama promised, in typical Chicago street thug fashion, to “call out” his opponents. Wilson simply did the same.

Shortly after THE SPEECH, House Democrats scurried off . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com)


now for you conservatives with these high values who cant keep there thing in there pantsand the one like joe ,dont be alarmed joe your buddies are right there with you,you aint got a clue how our state and federal entitties really work and i mean ssa mediciaid,medicare,to get there services you have to prove to them that you are an american so how do you get that illegals will have access to any programs offered by the state or federal,the only way they can get healthcare is to pay cash or go to the E.R. and we pay for the er viset now another point your party is now worried about the defecit ,why? you guys dident have any problems spending when bush was in charge you signed every spending bill that hit the desk .question how much stock do you have in insurance companys .opinion- very narrow minded wast of life


A hog farmer who made it.


Wowee, look at the lives of quiet desperation on both sides, now not so quiet anymore!

It's funnier than watching two one-legged men engage in an ass-kicking contest -- and more humane than two headless roosters going at it with razor blades strapped to their feet.

Word on the street is that a back-sliding Michael Vick wants in on this action.

This is what you inevitably get when there isn't any real difference between the two parties.

I'm keeping my money in my wallet, where it belongs, not sending anything to either Miller or Wilson or the democrat or republican committees. And my votes go where they now belong -- third-party candidates.


That Acorn lady was just doin' what any tax lawyer does every day.

Just ask Bernhard Wolfman, the tax law professor from Harvard who was well paid to give Scooter Libby an "opinion" that Marc Rich didn't do anything wrong...

That Marc Rich was being wrongfully hounded by the IRS and should be pardoned!!

Bernhard didn't think trading with the enemy was that big a deal.

Bernhard was the one who wrote an article criticizing Justice Douglas "behavior in ta

x cases" as a Supreme Court cases.

As if anyone gave a s---.

Bernhard at that time was conned into thinking he might be nominated to the Supreme Court.

That would have been the joke of the century.

Anyhow, tax lawyers routinely tell Mafiosi to file their tax returns and put "privileged" where it asks for the occupation (the number the Acorn lady was talking about).

Yes, there is a marijuana tax still I do believe and people who engage in illegal activity including gambling are still supposed to file tax returns.

And as long as they are reporting income, as I'm sure Bernhard Wolfman would agree, they can deduct expenses required to generate the income.

Just remember to put the word "privileged" where the form asks you to incriminate yourself....

Acorn lady really didn't do anything the pettifogging tax lawyers of this nation don't do every day...

IRS is just there to collect revenue.

They are not there to bust John Gotti, just to collect the taxes he owes...

They are not there to enforce the immigration laws, that's for sure.

Many "illegal aliens" have taxpayer ID numbers and file returns and pay income taxes...IRS doesn't care about their status so long as it rakes in revenue to the Treasury....

So, while a bit sensational, Acorn lady was just doing what she learned at the H&R Block tax training center for tax preparers....

I am NOT making this up!


yes he must apologize also to his BOSS the American people as well- what a complete embasassment to the world community this idiot is


Silva mentions the Democrat candidate is a "marine veteran", in an effort to help the Democrat.

But fails to mention that Republican Congressman Joe Wilson is a retired army colonel.

Outrage over media bias is mounting....


"But fails to mention that Republican Congressman Joe Wilson is a retired army colonel. Outrage over media bias is mounting."


Get real. If there were media bias, "Colonel" Wilson would be exposed for the pathetic hypocrite that he is. It doesn't get any more despicable when someone who calls himself a military man repeatedly votes to cut veteran benefits and deny them health care while taking advantage of the same system himself. As usual, the Party of Patriotism reveals itself to be the fraud that it is.


Bruce,
Everybody in all the branches hate colonels; Overbearing, passive aggressive 'general' wanna-bees.


Now if he could just lose 100 pounds, get some plastic surgery and learn to make a speech longer than "you lie" he can put together an exploratory committee to run for President against Barack in 2012

Good luck with that.


What did Joe say that was racist?? Where did that come from? Why does someone have to be a jerk and bring up race in order to make someone look bad. That's just below the belt. I do not understand why everytime something against the president happens. Race comes up! Why?? I do not support the Presidents Health Care Plan and I'm not racist. I promise you that one! I am supporting and helping a local BLACK Democrat in my town. But, I do not support government run health care!


@ D Burro

You are the only person in the country who doesn't see that race is a major factor in Wilson's dishonest outburst and the wackos coming out of the woodwork to try to undermine the last election because Obama won the White House.

Wilson, as a Son of the Confederacy, challenged the integrity and honesty of the Office of the President and mocked the rules of decorum of the the Congress. Certainly a sleazy thing, but he later said he did it in the passion coming from openly racist teebaggers shoutdown events.


garsh, now after all this time with JW raising 2mm and the other guy barely at 1.5mm, i guess theres a whole lot of "racists" who dont like big government. funny how the lefty whacko media could only spint this story ONE way in the beginning: the other guy is gonna get a ton io cash. when the REAl story is/was: JW said the truth, the actions days later the remove illegals in the senate from coverage proved that, and JW is actually going to end up raising more money. funny huh? you read the msm and they have NO IDEA whats really going on. excplains a lot of the things the dums says. they read the msms and have NO IDEA.....but they soon will.....relax dums....its coming....you can hear it....you got it all....and you are still soooooo mad all the time...thats funny too.....bye bye.....


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