Speaking of Joe Wilson....

Nancy Pelosi said that she does not feel that there is any reason that Florida Congesssman Alan Grayson should apologize for his remarks on the House Floor earlier this week that the GOP Health Care Plan will require citizens to "die quickly!" or the fact that he called the GOP a bunch of "knuckle dragging Neanderthals" on CNN.

Of course this is the same Nancy Pelosi who, along with her liberal cronies, made much ado about Representative Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) shout out, “You lie!", to President Obama when the President(incorrectly) told the American people that his health plan would not spend tax payer dollars on illegal aliens. The liberal left was “horrified” at the congressman’s knee-jerk reaction to Obama’s patently false assertion that illegal aliens would not be covered in his health plan.

I’ll admit, it probably wasn’t the most professional reaction to a President’s congressional address and I certainly didn’t appreciate when Democrats hollered, heckled and booed President Bush at his 2005 State of the Union address to congress when he spoke of social security reform. Nevertheless, unlike the 2005 Democrats, Wilson immediately apologized to the President who graciously accepted same.

In a sane, adult world that should have been the end of the story but there is nothing sane nor adult in Washington D.C. politics.
The looney left launched a vitriolic assault on Congressman Wislon alleging everything from racism to drug use.  The Democrats would not accept the fact that Wilson immediately apologized to Obama for his remark
and promptly set about to censure him in offcial house proceedings.

Of course Wilson's censure could not, of and by itself,  stand to atone for his sin of speaking the truth during Obama's congessional speech and they then let loose of left's liberal dogs of war who immediately began to assail the South Carolina's Representative's reputation.

According to MSNBC’s David Shuster, South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson shouting ‘you lie’ to President Obama was racism on display: “The fact that Joe Wilson is from South Carolina...it strikes a lot of people as awfully close to the idea that maybe there was some sort of racist or bigoted element there.”

Shuster went on to add: “And especially then when you look up at the picture and you see older white men, all Republicans, sitting there. Just it gives off a strange vibe.” On Thursday, Shuster claimed that Republicans were: “...all white males with short haircuts. They look sort of angry. No women, no minorities, and it looks like they’ve sort of become unhinged.”

Jesse Jackson was asked “What role, if any, do you believe that bigotry is playing in some of this venom toward President Obama?”

Jackson seized on the opportunity to cry racism: “Well, substantial. There is a struggle between the hope of going forward and the fear of going backwards....the big C-word, conservative, for some that means fiscal, for some, it means religious ethics, for some it means a code word for race.”

Bill Maher also could not contain himself. “To heckle a President, to shout in the middle of a speech, would he have done that if it was a white President? I don't think so. I think this is a southern guy who thinks 'I can do whatever I want when it's a black guy speaking."

Maureen Dowd at the NY Times wrote that "Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it"

Lastly, the below excerpt is a “startling revelation” intimating that Wilson is a drug user that appeared in The Hill's Blog Briefing Room under the ominous headline...

"Wilson regularly took caffeine pills in 2007".

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who shouted "you lie!" at President Obama during his Wednesday night address to Congress, admitted to regularly consuming caffeine pills in 2007.

It is unclear if Wilson still takes NoDoz, a brand of pill that contains 200 milligrams of caffeine a pop. By comparison, a seven ounce cup of drip coffee contains 115 to 175 milligrams of caffeine.

I come away from this issue with two thoughts...

Firstly, Wilson accomplished what th mainstream media would not report on and he made Democrats uncomfortable enough to acknowledge the current bills would let illegal immigrants get benefits.As a result of this controversy, Senate Democrats said Thursday they discussed options, like requiring Social Security numbers to make clear illegal immigrants will not get coverage. Of course they failed to mention that an amendment had previously been offered to both bills which would have precluded the expenditure of health care funds to illegal aliens, but the amendment was killed in committee.

Secondly, I for one am becoming sick and tired of the immediate and continual response by the left to any criticism of their policies as being racist and labeling the entire conservative movement in this country as bigoted and otherwise flawed. Come on, you immediately set about digging up dirt on Joe Wislon and all you can uncover is that he took caffeine pills in 2007 and then try to spin that into a drug use inference story?

Our elected officials (in both parties)at the federal, state and local levels have become a disgrace, wallowing in the corrpuption of money and power politics.

Our mainsream media have abandoned journalistic objectivity for partian driven politicl agendas.

When justified political dissent can be casually dismissed as amounting to nothing more than racial bogotry our nation is in serious jeopardy.  Money, special interest groups and a majority democratic party that is being driven by a far left progresive social agenda are usurping our founding fathers ideal of a national government based on specific principles of governance and Lincoln's hope that and that a "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" is in serious danger.

Peter J. Mahon