My God... What An Idiot...

Personally, I sort of liked Rep Joe Wilson’s idea of introducing British-style heckling to the halls of congress; totally disrespectful and out of step with American tradition, true, but their tradition is better. Unfortunately, Wilson was also lying about the point at issue and will thereby set back the cause of heckling by decades.

Critics say there is no way to enforce the ban on subsidies for undocumented workers, since the Democratic majority in the House turned back a Republican effort to explicitly stiffen citizenship checks. But Medicare and Medicaid already require those enrolled to provide "a substantial number of documents" to show they're U.S. citizens or legal residents, said Henrie Treadwell, a professor of community and preventive medicine at Atlanta's Morehouse University medical school.

How are we going to stop the parent from getting subsidies to buy insurance for that child?

And how are we going to make sure that the subsidies go ONLY to that childs insurance needs?

Are the halls of congress so sacrosanct that people have to be quiet and not react to what is said?

I was wondering how Rush Limbaugh would spin this incident. He might want to put Joe Wilson on Mount Rushmore.

WILSON: Madam Speaker, last week, America's number-one radio personality, Rush Limbaugh, auctioned off for charity a letter shamefully signed by a group of 41 Democrat senators. The letter to Limbaugh's employer attacked Rush for comments blatantly distorted by Media Matters regarding persons who had lied about their service in the military. I am happy to report that the Senate letter of infamy auctioned for $2.1 million, an amount Rush says he will generously match. That brings the total to $4.2 million. The money will be donated to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. This charitable organization provides financial assistance to the children of fallen Marines and law enforcement officers. I wish to commend Rush for overcoming what was clearly a political ploy to chill his First Amendment rights of free speech. Rush took an abuse of power by Democrat leadership and turned it into something positive. Between Rush Limbaugh and Senate Democrats, America knows who really supports our troops.

I don't think so, and I don't really care about the argument that some will use about "respecting" the office of president. Few really respect the office itself, unless it's occupied by their side (witness all the folk here who cheered when a shoe was thrown at Bush but suddenly call for respect for Obama). I certainly don't think they should be treated with kid gloves.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I do want to point out that had the shoe been thrown by one of our own congressmen it would have been a different story. Just as if the heckling had been done by an ordinary person in a crowd or even a reporter it would not have been news.