AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN 2008 AND BEYOND

It is fascinating that the leftwingers descend en masse to destroy or applaud attempted destruction of Glenn Beck for using the "R" word re President Obama. And now they descend on Joe Wilson for using the "L" word. The flap over Joe Wilson’s improper and uncivil outburst at Obama’s address to Congress cannot be condoned or defended. But worthy of the mass media hysteria it has provoked or demand for Wilson's head on a platter from the quite uncivil Democrats who booed George Bush's speeches?

The double standard is truly alive and well.

Don't you think that a "joint session of Congress" is a somewhat different place and audience to those in your quoted 'examples'?

Calling the President in Congress a liar is in your eyes similar to calling the President in front of 60 Del Sol High School juniors a looser?

I do not and have not defended what Joe Wilson did nor did he defend his own action but immediately issued an appropriate apology to the President. Given the unseriousness of the offense, that should have been sufficient. But no, he remains front page news days after the offense.

I'd rather the pivate medical insurance companies profit billions of dollars than the federal government medical insurance squander trillions of dollars.

Obama Medical Care will squander trillions of dollars.

The cost of private medical insurance is reducible, if all medical insurance companies in America are required to compete with all medical insurance companies in America--not just the ones in their state.

The cost of private medical insurance is reducible, if the cost of medical care provided by medical practicianers were reduced.

The cost of medical care provided by medical practicianers is reducible, if the cost of medical tort insurance for medical practicianers were reduced.

The cost of medical tort insurance for medical practicianers is reducible, if the cost of medical tort rewards were reduced.

The cost of medical tort rewards are reducible, if maximum tort rewards were reduced to a maximum multiple of actual damages.

The maximum multiple of actual damages is reducible, if Congress passes and the President signs a bill specifying what that maximum multiple shall be.

The "apology" was not appropriate. Wilson merely made an excuse for his uncivil behavior and did not apologize for the libelous content of his accusation. Thereafter, he exploited his own misconduct by appearing on talk shows repeating his false accusation, basking in self-serving bravado stating "I will not be muzzled," and requesting contributions for his re-election campaign. He thrust his own despicable a$$ into the limelight causing most people to see that he's a scum-sucking, lying, flame-throwing, opportunist who doesn't deserve to occupy a congressional seat.

"JM, You are totally mistaken; there are differences in what kind of derivatives one wishes to address. They are not all equal even though they may be called a derivative."

The derivatives that banks and finance companies traded were mortgage based derivatives that were restructured over and over, and were unethical because they were being traded without the oversight of the SEC who failed their responsibility and the banks and finance companies traded them based on greed - not on their true intrinsic values.

...An offense that I would have bet a steak dinner would have been no big deal in the MSM if a Democrat had done it.

The point is however, that had a Democrat done the same thing--and many were rude and offensive when President Bush was speaking to joint sessions of Congress--every leftist here would be saying that an apology for any indiscretion would be sufficient and it would be ridiculous to make a mountain out of a molehill. As it is now, look how many of you are already defending YOUR guys as being nowhere nearly as bad as Joe Wilson.

The double standard is alive and well.

That's what the extreme conservatives have become; despicable congress members who have the support of like-minded republicans.

Palin, Wilson, Cheney, Rove, McCain, and Boehner; all representatives of the No Party.

It's not that CI. In essence they are the same gamble. I said before, I don't think that it's inappropriate, but it's a gamble, and Wilson played a bad hand even if it was the same hand as these people. Pocket aces don't always win. If you're going to play the shout it out game, you'd better have something to back up your claim. Bush's claims were more arguable than Obama's. That puts the fire under Wilson, not the other way around.

What's perhaps most interesting about the dialog around Wilson now is that the GOP and conservative pop media pundits are trying to change the discussion from whether or not Wilson should be reprimanded, to whether or not he should be praised.


I swear, if the GOP was half as smart about finding solutions for problems as they are with PR, they'd be the best party.

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