You know what? We've seen nothing but this kind of thing from the right wingers, and from some on the left, I'm looking at you Rick Boucher and Heath Schuler, many times before in this debate. So really, Wilson was just saying what all the other people who want to deny our fellow citizens basic health insurance were thinking. He's a pompous ass, who gets his facts wrong and who wants nothing more than to retain the status quo so he can rake in campaign dollars from big pharma and big health insurance companies.
So meh, I'll refrain from getting outraged over that boorish corporate tool's disrespect for the presidency and I'll save my outrage for what he and his party did to these Wilsons:
Outing a covert CIA agent to cover your party's ass during the prosecution of a unpopular and ultimately illegal and useless war is much more outrageous than trying to shout down the President during a speech to a joint session of Congress. But hey, stay classy Rep. Wilson, you're the best your party has to offer in the health care debate.
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The performance of all the Republican asshats would be funny if it wasn't so sad already. I am like you and saving my outrage for the real big things. This is so stupid and petty its embarassing for me to notice it. Thanks for the gut check.
Dear Mr. Monkey:
You are incorrect when you assert that your Joe Wilson and his wife were victims of a Bush administration plot. That is a myth that the left simply cannot jettison. Valerie Plame Wilson was outed in a column by Bob Novak. In Chapter One of his memoirs published last year, he explains exactly how and why that column came to be. His source was Richard Armitage, then assistant to Colin Powell at the State Department. Both Armitage and Powell (and Novak, for that matter) opposed the invasion of Iraq. Novak had called Armitage for a backgrounder he was doing on Wilson because he had impressed Novak as a true asshole (Novak's term, not mine) when they met in the green room before an appearance on Meet The Press. Armitage volunteered the info. Novak called Rove to confirm it (Rove didn't call Novak, or anybody else about Plame). Rove said "oh, I've heard that, too," or "oh, you've heard that, too," depending on whose grand jury testimony was more accurate.
As was Novak, I'm a conservative who opposed the war. So my critcism of you is not motivated by this issue. It just irritates me when people repeat things that are demonstrably false. Ya know, like Birthers and Truthers.
Please don't tell me that Novak was part of the plot. That would be a bold display of ignorance.
Ahhhh Jim, I see you will do anything to protect your boys Bush and Cheney. It's obvious that you'll go to any lengths to cover for their many crimes against this country and against the Wilsons.
I never have figured out how Novak stayed out of prison for his part in this outrage. Maybe because "they" knew he would stink up the place so bad it would foment prisoner uprisings?? (LBJ always said he could smell Novak before he saw him.)
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