Comments on: Joe Wilson is Taking Some Heat https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544672 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:24:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544672 Mike H [45]: I think it’s cute that you have two main words in your bibliography: “Huh” and “Lame”

[39] Now now Mr Laden, dont change the subject. We were speaking specifically of the 2005 SOTU adress

Actually no we weren’t I was referring to the incidents too numerous to enumerate that occurred while Bush was president. I don’t know anything about your 2005 SOTU address, but I have a feeling if I bothered to look into it I would find information that would embarrass you.

]]> By: bobh https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544671 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:15:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544671 Weighing in late but there is an interesting post that I saw pointing out that Mr. Wilson is not only uncivil and dumb but he is also a hypocrite. Turns out he, his wife and four sons are covered by a government run single payer system that also employs its own doctors – no not the congressional system, rather TRICARE. If he believes that health care reform will lead to government takeover of the health system and that would be bad I would expect as a patriotic citizen he would renounce his right to TRICARE, which he is quoted as declaring is a great system. I wonder, Mike H., who provides your insurance, any of the government run systems that have existed for decades under both R and D administraions -TRICARE, Medicare, Medicade?

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544670 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:53:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544670 Good. one million raised to run against him will require a million run on his side. It does not matter who wins. What matters is how many million the RNCCC has to spend to keep their icon-boy alive. The funny part is that the Republicans do not see Wilson as their man. He is not well liked. He’s considered to be an absolute idiot and he gets personal joy out of not following the party line. When those party leaders sat down and talked to him yesterday (or the night before) they told him more than “you’ve gotta apologize.” THey also collected on his first born.

]]> By: Joshua Zelinsky https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544669 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:48:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544669 Wilson has apparently raised 200,000 since the remarks. This is helping him too but clearly not nearly as much. See http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/11/wilson.fundraising/index.html

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544668 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:43:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544668 Through ActBlue. There are probably other sources. I’d bet the total pot is over 1 mil. We’ll do it again as election approaches if the bastard has not resigned yet.

Wilson will probably win because they usually do, but the RNCCC will have to spend two or three congressional campaigns worth to make that happen. This is a good tactic, and it is all about tactics.

]]> By: The Science Pundit https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544667 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:30:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544667 @Joshua Zelinsky

I heard from a friend that the total now is closer to $700,000 but can’t find a source right now saying that.

I put a link to his ActBlue page in a previous comment(#41). It’s now up to $768K.

]]> By: Joshua Zelinsky https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544666 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:37:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544666 CNN is now saying $500,000. I heard from a friend that the total now is closer to $700,000 but can’t find a source right now saying that.

]]> By: MikeMa https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544665 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:19:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544665 Patrick Henry,
You haven’t read anything about the health care bill at all have you? Just watch the tube and listen to Rush? Sad but even sadder that you have a few people just like you shouting but not reading or understanding anything too.

Joe ‘asshole’ Wilson’s shout about a lie was, in itself, a lie. There is a provision in the bill restricting access to health care for illegals. Your hatred and bigotry are safe and protected.

Mind you, the illegals aren’t gong away, but they and their kids will now be un-vaccinated and sicker making our environments less healthy and reducing yet further our herd immunity.

I guess you will understand little of what I said but go ahead, shout all you like supporting a fool of a representative if that makes you feel better.

]]> By: Patrick Henry.. LIVE ON FOREVER! https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544664 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:57:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544664 What in the world are you numbnuts talking about… rude? I wonder what it was like when our country first started. A bunch of ex-british subjects all sitting around having a jolly good time, sipping tea and schnapps, perhaps a crumpet or two? while they all just calmly talked over how they were going to ask the British to “please” get their lowly arses out of our new country. I don’t think that this man was RUDE… I think he was RIGHTEOUS!!! Sometimes you cannot get anyone to hear anything but “We got change!” whatever that means?
AND sometimes people want the truth instead.
Did any of you morons learn ANYTHING from your 12 years of government education? I did and I think if you look toward your history lessons you will find that not everyone was so polite as you lefty, do gooder dummycrats want everyone to believe!!!
Does no one remember? “GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!” no doubt spoken in a whisper at a small resturant in Philidelphia where the kitchen noise all but covered it… NO!!! THESE men spoke the loudest where it did the most good… FULLY in public and TOTALLY against those who would have stopped this great country from separating with those lousy, uncivilized, British.
You go Joe. Through your hat in for Pres. next time.

]]> By: Patrick Henry.. LIVE ON FOREVER! https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544663 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:39:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-is-taking-some-heat/#comment-544663 What in the world are you numbnuts talking about… rude? I wonder what it was like when our country first started. A bunch of ex-british subjects all sitting around having a jolly good time, sipping tea and schnapps, perhaps a crumpet or two? while they all just calmly talked over how they were going to ask the British to “please” get their lowly arses out of our new country. I don’t think that this man was RUDE… I think he was RIGHTEOUS!!! Sometimes you cannot get anyone to hear anything but “We got change!” whatever that means? AND sometimes people want the truth instead. You go Joe. Through your hat in for Pres. next time.

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