Barely 36 hours have passed since Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout out to the President during his speech on healthcare reform. He has been vilified in the media and by the general public, and has made a speedy apology to the subject of his outburst. Now, the same media urges us to move on. He has been punished in the court of public opinion. He did the right thing afterward, and any continued examination of his action takes away from the real issue, which is how to resolve the healthcare mess. He has paid for his mistake, and we should not dwell on what he did, or why he did it.
FUCK HIM. I say, let’s kick the can down the road some more.
First, his apology was a non-apology. He said that he had been told by his overlords to say that his statement had been ill-considered. He never said that he agreed that they were wrong. Then, he went on to justify his remarks, citing non-existent portions of the proposed bill to support his contention. There is no remorse in him, no suggestion that he had been an unpardonable ass. Why is this? What kind of climate could there be that would make this hunnish antics acceptable in his eyes?
Just look at the behavior we’ve seen in the Republican party since the election. Hell, it started way before then. There you have Eric Kantor, twittering away while his President speaks. You have another congressman getting up and stalking out of the chamber to show his fake disgust. Since Wilson’s outburst, with the exception of McCain’s condemnation right after the speech (and before the right’s talking points were solidified), EVERY Republican has defended Wilson, continuing the myth that somehow the bill would allow for coverage of illegal aliens. Many have even suggested that the President is somehow to blame for the congressman’s actions. Not a one, after Wednesday night, said that this is unacceptable. But this is not an isolated incident.
Scant days before, their panties were in a twist because he dared to speak to the nation’s schoolchildren about the importance of staying in school. How outrageous! To expose their innocent ears to the unspeakable notions of their elected leader. Of course, most of the truly vitriolic spewings came from their pack of hyenas, Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin, Ingalls, et al, with their apocalyptic, end of civilization, eeek-a-mouse rantings. And no Republican repudiated them, when they said these things against their President.
No Republican has (bravely) stood up to condemn the incessant references to the President as being a socialist, or a communist, or a fascist (don’t they know that a communist and a fascist are, you know, opposite things?).
No Republican has stood up to say, just stop it already with the lunatic birther junk! Who is writing their talking points? The Daily Star?
Their entire goal has been to delegitimize this President by any means necessary. They are trying to cobble together a scenario whereby the American people can say, “Yes, this man whom we elected with an overwhelming majority, and supported over and over again in public polls, and provided with a majority in both houses of congress, so that he could do the job of changing the direction of the country, and whom we have told must enact healthcare reform as a priority, must have come by his election via some form of fluke. He’s in there, but he couldn’t have gotten there legitimately. It’s just unthinkable. I mean, look at him.
And there it is. They look at him, and they see a black man in the highest office the country has to offer. They may wrap it in the garb of policy differences, or of ideological conflict, but it comes down to Joe Wilson, that son of a Confederate soldier, and his antebellum longings.
So, let’s not move on just yet. Let’s not be too hasty to play nice, because you know they won’t. Rather, let’s shine a light on what they’re really up to, until the vermin scuttle back under the sink.
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