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Do you know how many Americans have perished since Obama has pulled the plug on democracy? The answer is “countless.” Alternately: millions. Billions, even, if you count the poor ones that Obama is always so gay about counting. The GOP will now shuffle someone out, “Charles Boustany”, who will read the names of socialism’s victims to the tune of Rod Blagojevich singing Elvis B-sides. It will be America’s finest hour.
9:06 PM: “Afford” is the key word here, not “death robot.”
9:07 PM: Promised health care pun! “This is not just my diagnosis” but all Americans just hated this speech. It’s a medical fact.
9:08 PM: Obama totally missed his shot to change his mind about everything he was really never going to change his mind about.
9:09 PM: Dr. Charles Boustany operates on people who don’t even need it, all the time.
9:10 PM: It’s unfortunate, isn’t it?, Obama doesn’t want to allow Charles Boustany to import healthy patients from across state lines.
9:11 PM: Wonkette has diagnosed Charles Boustany with Stage LXIX Fag-itis. There is no cure.
9:12 PM: CNN is playing all the hits from the speech. They include: “Congress Isn’t Going to Deny You Care,” “Either Are Insurance Companies (As Soon As I Sign This Bill),” “Born to Run,” and “No One Should Go Broke Because They Get Sick.”
9:13 PM: (Your Wonkette liveblogist does not have the privilege—no the RIGHT—to watch anything but CNN, as there is a crucial Floor Meeting in her college dormitory that needs the teevee, for some reason.)
9:14 PM: What SHOCKS you, Paul Steinhauser?
9:16 PM: Public option is not a deal-breaker, this shocked me.
9:17 PM: No abortions, no death panels. There WAS John McCain though, which is… different?
9:18 PM: Who was the Lone Wingnut who yelled at Obama? Who even WAS that?
9:19 PM: It was a resounding cry of “You Lie!” It was the ghost of capitalism until proven otherwise.
9:20 PM: Some Republican members of the House brought signs, like to hold up… like while listening to our President.
9:21 PM: Boustany: the Republicans could not have gotten anyone better?
9:22 PM: No, they could not.
9:23 PM: Various Americans reacted in various ways to various parts of the speech!
9:24: CNN is now reading comments culled from its blog. These will now replace Charles Boustany describing his sick experiments on humans as the “official GOP reaction.”
9:25 PM: Okay enough! YOU ARE ALL LATE TO THE FLOOR MEETING. Go, go!
Wonkette, please find out who the Liar-Shouter is?
Pretty plz?
He looks like a bowling pin…
what fucking speech did Princess Charles watch?
sucks that you pre-recorded your speech.
ROBOTS WILL EAT YOUR MEDICINE!
Agent Orange again!
Is this Bobby Jindal whiteface?
This guy is full of shit.
I repeat: he is not even responding to the speech. He talks like For-rest Gump. “Run, Jenny, make healthy choices, Jen-ny.”
I operated on too many who were asleep while i did it
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Wow. Sounds like the Republicans have rolled over and died. If their designated spokesperson is endorsing the President’s goals, the debate is over.
That robot is actually less scary than my doctor.
“Boustany?” What is this guy, Iranian?
That’s not Republicanism I can believe in.
meh. Is this Bobby Jindal ‘IN’ whiteface?
Isn’t this guy an intern at NBC?
In this case, the GOP is the problem. And medical liability reform will not be tort reform.
basically he’s saying “no, we disagree with everything with everything he says, even the parts that we still support.”
Just to be clear, being a “heart surgeon” in Louisiana means you are the one that removes the heart during the Voodoo ceremony?
Boustany is blog-whoring.
Well, at least it isn’t Bobby Jindal.
HealthCare.GOP.Bullshit
he said ‘taking away our freedoms’. fuck you, dood.
Shorter Boustany: “We should do a lot of things….should
Oh, guess what the Republican plan is — tort reform and tax cuts. That never ruined the economy before.
The republican tool seems to be nervious!
What is the deal? He gets time to talk, and then tells you to read the interwebs to get the details.
I’ve always had a special affection for the phrase “horse’s ass.” It’s people like this that it was invented for.
He reminds me of the cops from In the Heat of the Night.
The barackobama.com channel doesn’t carry this and I am glad.
Pilate:
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)
why do they always go to someone from louisiana? is there nothing further south than louisiana?
You’re not welcome SUED!!!!
And we’re out.
so lame.
Insurance crossing state lines sounds like illegal imigration to me.
Bipartitionship to the GOP means doing it our way.
Buying insurance across state lines for immoral purposes…
Well he can’t be called long-winded…
Oh my god: did Olbermann just say that this Birther tried to buy a British title? Srsly? Oh that is crazy rich.
Malpractice? GO MSMBC!!!!!!! Bobby Jindal’s epic failure ROFLMAO!
I love you people!
LaurenLK: gov-ern-mint sub-si-dees for an all-shrimp diet.
I am reading. This speech. From a teleprompter. I feel. Very strongly about. Health. Care reform.
He was as bad as Jindal. Louisiana fail.
The Republitard response is from the Strom Thurmond Room, meaning the Republitards will do for health care what Strom Thurmond did for civil rights.
Wow, Keith is telling all about Boostany witch doktor who likes a lawsuit himself…and loves the BIRF CerTIVICAte
Well, it was unpleasant but brief. Much like getting molested by a Republican.
Joe Wilson, R-SC, was the one who yelled LIAR, reports C-SPAN.
Olbermann just pointed out that this guy is a birther. And that he was sued for malpractice 3 times.
Crank Tango: Well . . . Texas, but you know, they seceded from the USA and all.
That was it?
Dreamer: because he knows that his speech is no longer relevant since the President addressed all those issues.
Funny, I thought no one could do worse than Booby Jindal at a Repug response, but Boustany managed to pull it off! Are they both messican brothers separated at birth? Why do Jindal & Boustany hate the GOP so much?
Ha, ABC just went to people getting hurt on an obstacle course. Australian, people! Because they have universal government coverage, if they gets really hurt.
Keith loves Tweeting Cantors
Well, that was short, stupid and pointless.
But, hey apparently the Republicans use the web for something other than gay porn. Who knew?
Battling post-speech commercials…it’s like ship-of-the-line old timey naval warfare…man the mizzenmast. BOOOM! Powdermonkey, MOAR OAKUM! BLAAAAAAAM!
LaurenLK: oh you better believe it!
Joe Wilson was yeller?
The Thorasic (chest-cutter) Surgeon speaks.
Without malpractice reform, I won’t be able to afford my 4th home, or the tiny Meskins to maintain it.
CHOICE = FASCISM
Buying insurance across state lines is the start of the slippery slope down the road of bringing weapons, booze, drugs, and whores across state lines. Oh, and fetuses.
That was short, but painful.
As the President said, ‘we’re calling you out.’ Bust-ee-ay: no freedoms will be taken away. Lay off the cajun sauce weeniehead.
Wait… he wants people to be able to buy insurance across state lines? Deny the state governments the power to regulate their own health insurance markets?
STATES RIGHTS!!!11!1111!1111
AP is reporting (through Olbermann) that it was Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina that yelled “liar” or whatever. Perhaps he needs to go hiking on the Ol’ Appalachian trail.
Just when I think South Carolina couldn’t embarrass me any more…
Wow, Joe Wilson, by tomorrow your inbox will be full!
Oh Elizabeth Edwards is back on her pity media tour!
memzilla: Honey, get my pitchfork!
imagine this for a second: everything i have heard about tonight’s mallarkey is via wonkette.
(we are not allowed to have TV under socialized medicine in canadia.)
“Lord?”
Ratify the Titles and Nobility Amendment NAO!
idiot son of an asshole: You act as if bringing whores across state lines is wrong. How un-American. I’m disappointed in you.
GreatOldOnesParty: Old Yeller
Meh. I had to turn off MSNBC when Dr. Boringmetodeath came on.
But Obama’s speech kicked ass. He sounded so conciliatory as he was threatening the lives of the Big Fat Cry-Baby Party©.
Also: Yes, yes, we must discover the name of the Shrieking Attention Whore Yelling Things At The Leader Of The Free World In The MIddle Of His Televised Speech. Definitely, also.
Pilate: Joe Barton?
Whats-is-name, that Louisiana heart surgeon congress person Republican fella?
Almost life-like! He shouldn’t've stopped by The Death Panel on the way.
When did Bootsy Collins lose his funk?
Hey Boustany: Weebles wobble but they sometimes do fall down! Prick.
Huh, that was Congressmandouchebag Wilson from South Carolina who heckled so disrespectfully and screamed “You lie.”
I’m just glad Republicans found someone just as charming as their last “response team” guy, Kenneth the Page.
BlueStateLibtard: Right. You checked the wiki?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Wilson_(U.S._politician)
WadISay: Jeez, I’d do that. But even I am smart enough to know this is cr@ppy ASS time to blogwhore. New post in seconds!
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AP is reporting (through Olbermann) that it was Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina that yelled “liar” or whatever
It’s all over the Twitter. I hope it was really Wilson because he’s getting slammed by angry nerds.
For those of you who switched off the teevee after Barry left the stage, below is a transcript of Charles Boustany’s speech.
“Not only am I a republican congressman, but you can also find me in the phone book under ‘Heart Surgery, Leeching, Colonoscopies and Fingerblasting’. Unfortunately, Bobby Jindal is currently performing exorcisms on women who aren’t interested in his creepy advances, so I’m here to tell you that this colored man unequivocally wants to take control of your health care and kill the olds. Go to http://www.conservativepropaganda.gop.com to get the REAL story.”
“Addison Graves Wilson, Sr.(born July 31, 1947) is Republican politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina, currently representing the state’s 2nd congressional district (map), in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district is based in the state capital, Columbia, and stretches to the resort towns of Beaufort and Hilton Head Island. He is a douchebag that called the President of the United States a liar on national television and has no respect for the office he holds.”
I fucking heart Wikipedia.
On FOX NOISE they’re asking…
Karl Rove (?)
for his “analysis”….
Are they just trying to break through the bottom of the barrel or what?
I switched off the Jindal impersonator. Jindal’s bedtime story about the local sheriff means too much to me.
As for The President, his address kind of reminded me of LBJ’s famous “Stop Being Assholes About Black Vote Reform” speech. A good job.
Yay, I want to work from Sherrod Brown. He makes me feel all tingly to be from Ohio
Here’s Joe Wilson’s page:
http://joewilson.house.gov/
stew: He really really does
GreatOldOnesParty: haha, you’re drunk
Lionel Hutz Esq.: I know I’d like to.
Boustany: Doing something that no Democrat is proposing would be very expensive and bad. I’m telling the truth.
The loud wingnut was Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame’s husband?) Everyone is shouting at @CongJoeWilson on Twitter right now for him being such an asshat.
That is I want to work FOR him, he could give me work, that would be fine. Ugh. tired.
Boutsany/Wilson 2012
Joe WIlson’s website is apparently being shit-hammered right now.
Pilate: It’s already history on Wiki!
Moran. Liar, liar, stethoscope on fire. E.g., AETNA Health Care Insurance exists in umpteen states. Likewise, BC/BS.
MSMBC has a senior White House advisor.
FOX Noise has…Turdblossom…
I rest my case.
malo-ji: It must be true. Wikipedia already says its true.
Pilate: and then this gem,
“During a September 9th 2009 speech to Congress by President Obama, Wilson created controvery by calling out “You lie!” as Obama said there was no coverage for illegal immigrants in his healthcare plan. However, section 246 of the bill HR3200 is entitled “NO FEDERAL PAYMENT FOR UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS” and states that no funds will be spent to cover illegal immigrants.”
GreatOldOnesParty: Let’s BURN HIM!
You just know that in between yelling and heckling, Joe Wilson was leaning over to the guy beside him and regaling him with some lobbyist fucking stories. And farting.
RoscoePColtraine: “the lord and the liar, coming to the iowa county fair. BE THERE!”
GREATEST PHOTO EVER: http://towleroad.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c730253ef0120a55eaa92970b-pi
Hopey and the gang react to Joe Wilson’s outburst.
Uncommon Nonsense: Yep, getting a 500 Server Error…ha ha ha
Joe Wilson just won the dinner at Sonny’s BBQ with Mr & Mrs. Snowbilly
Jindal was Kenneth; Lord Boustany was Peewee Herman
GreatOldOnesParty: The scary thing is that on FOX News, he is the Liberal voice.
Handy online form to contact Rep. Joe Wilson the Shithead:
http://www.house.gov/formwilson/IMA/issue.htm
joe wilson of sc house website is DEADZO! i could not even get it to load, anyone have his digits? what a fucking scumbag
Juli’s only in college? In the dorms? Christ on a cracker what is going ON here at the Wonkette???
LaurenLK:
Love Sherrod
I actually enjoyed the heckling. But I grew up in a parliamentary democracy where this kind of thing is common, so feel free to burn Joe Wilson to death.
I see poor people exterminate! exterminate! exterminate!
doloras: that photo is BEGGING for a blingee
Waiting for Blue Cross/Shield to send an army of jizz-dripping harlots to blow EVERYONE in that room.
They’ve got to be freaking out over there.
doloras: scowly joe! bemused barry. pelosi: shocked.
jagorev: “Realtime Twitter results for @CongJoeWilson
474 more results since you started searching. Refresh to see them. “
doloras: “Oh no you DI’N'T!”
Addison Graves Wilson, Sr., you have been awarded the Grand Prix du Sac Médaillon de Légèrement Salée Pénis Rongeurs!
jagorev: He’s a wingnut’s wingnut from, where else, SC.
“Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) announced today that his office will be open on Saturday, September 12 to host constituents traveling to….”
That’s as far as I got. I can’t open the page, the server is busy. I’ll bet the entire country is trying to see what an asshole this guy is.
doloras: Rahm is sawing off the horse’s head as we speak.
eerytime i see Karl Rove on tv, I want to call po-po
Norbert: “Dude, I just sharted… so messy!”
Alt-text: Your medicine costs $18.23, you are past childbearing age and your life is worth only $3.89 — die malingerer!
Boust-a-move-y can’t move his arms. Why is he tied down? Did he say he could out-speech Obama with his arms tied behind his back? In this endeavor he shall fail. Plus he is bald. No one cares what a bald man thinks or says.
I-man: July 2, 1979
wheelie: It was a good speech. Not at the same level as Winston Churchill’s “Fuck these Nazis pieces of shit right in the arse” speech, but not bad by American standards.
doloras:
Great! Blingee contest!
Joe Wilson screaming from the trailer park gallery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0Yu76rb-4
BlueStateLibtard: Not Mrs. Wilson’s husband, I’m assuming. Too many Joe Wilsons!
GreatOldOnesParty: Awsome, not loading. Slashdotted.
joe twelve pack: This will bypass the main page of his that is getting hammered:
http://www.house.gov/formwilson/IMA/issue.htm
Shouty Keith says Bousty’s been sued thrice for malpractice.
Walnut just told Larry “older than dirt” King that Joe Wilson should apologize immediately.
John McCain calls on Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) to apologize. Inbred hillbilly congressman digging in his heels in 3…2…1…
GreatOldOnesParty: Yes, they are. Even though most rational sane people realize that all they’ve got left is splinters.
obfuscator: I’d say that would be the same look that Professor Obama used to give the clowns who threw paper airplanes from the back row of his lecture hall.
Seriously, I still can’t get over a member of Congress, a “Republican,” trying to get a title.
What the fuck did those signs say? And how lame did they look?
SOUTH CAROLINAAAAA!!! Rep. Joe Wilson is history folks. What a fuckard. Even John McCain said that he was disrespectful and should apologize.
Man, Jon Stewart was right, South Carolina’s cornering the market on nutty politicians.
My favorite response moment was Chuck Todd before Boustany began: Republicans have chosen not to highlight one of their rising stars. A bad response could stall or destroy a promising political future. It has happened in the past.
Joe Wilson, Joe Wilson … hmmm … Oh My GOD!! Not THAT Joe Wilson?!! Mr. Valerie Plame?!! NOOOOOO
RoscoePColtraine: I bet Limbaugh covers him.
grevillea: 1452 more results
SayItWithWookies: Nahs.
On Larry King, McCain says Joe Wilson “should apologize immediately.”
I missed the Bobby Vindaloo one. He moved me so much last time. Well, at least they got someone from Louisiana. They do owe so much to the Repbcans after what they done from them after Katrinka. It’s the least the Louisianananas can do but go on national teevee and refute, so profoundly and well, what the President said.
idiot son of an asshole: Details. Why do hate America?
I should’ve bought a bunch of healthcare stocks and shorted ‘em…
I guess I got in just in time. typed a sternly worded email to rep wilson, and threw in a few chapters from war and peace, just to add a little heft. If it were a real letter I probably would have wiped my ass all over the paper, but this will have to do.
Joe Wilson’s webpage isn’t responding. Guess that folks are looking him up for the first time ever.
GreatOldOnesParty: Soylent green.
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Per the Wik:
Wilson is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker.
Nixon and Eisenhower would have had him flayed for that, on principle…
Nerdalicious: showing repuglican roots?
Wilson’s Wikipedia page was just locked.
What the fuck did Joe Wilson do? I was having a civilized conversation–with my husband.
Maybe @CongJoeWilson needs the mental health coverage. #batshitcrazy. RT @jaketapper hey @CongJoeWilson….um….what was THAT all about?
OzoneTom: Healthcare stocks were up today even after the contents of Barry’s speech became public knowledge. This is a huge windfall for health insurers.
http://twitter.com/CongJoeWilson/
DC Office:
212 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-4002
Phone: 202-225-2452
Fax: 202-225-2455
Email: Joe.Wilson AT mail.house.gov
chascates: Thanx, and Goddam I love AlGore’s InterNetsTubes. Not even an hour after Barry X’s speech was heckled by this fucktard he’s being inundated electronically. Is this a great time to be alive or WHAT?
Keith is talking about his dead mother and sick father. I have no pity for you as I have just listened to Elizabeth Edwards talk for 3 minutes.
“What the fuck did Joe Wilson do? I was having a civilized conversation–with my husband.”
Fearmongering about immigrants.
Wilson’s info from archive.org:
Fax:
202-225-2455
Phone and U.S. Mail:
The Midlands’ Office
1700 Sunset Blvd (US 378), Suite 1
West Columbia , SC 29169
Phone: (803) 939-0041
Phone: (888) 381-1442 (*only for area codes 803, 843, and 864)
Fax: (803) 939-0078
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Lowcountry Office
903 Port Republic Street, Beaufort, SC 29902
Mail to: Post Office Box 1538, Beaufort, SC 29901
Phone: (843) 521-2530
Fax: (843) 521-2535
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Washington Office
212 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2452
Fax: (202) 225-2455
Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Gee what a surprise. Wilson apparently is hosting a Beck 9/12 march and his website’s timing out.
Joe Wilson is a trending topic on Twitter! This means he is worse than Ahmadinejad.
Whoops. I forgot not everyone is watching tape-delayed Hopey & Italy v. Bulgaria (also tape-delayed) at the same time. No spoilers please!
joe twelve pack: Capitol number 202-225-2452
District offices: 803-939-0041; 843-521-2530
(Barney) Frank & (Ben) Stein! BATTLE ROYALE!
You can send Congressman Joe “I Fuck My Own Mother” Wilson a message readily and easily at
http://www.house.gov/formwilson/IMA/issue.htm
Both his official .gov site are swamped as well as http://www.joewilsonforcongress.com
The Force is strong tonight.
MzNicky: no not that Joe Wilson.
Hed007: @chriscilizia duude, is everything ok?
The question is, has Stephen Colbert better got to know Rep Wilson yet?
memzilla: Simply brilliant.
Guitar_Guy: You can still contact Joe Wilson at http://www.house.gov/formwilson/IMA/issue.htm
Guppy06:
Thank You. Most people forget the glottal stop. There’s no sass without the glottal stop.
jagorev: No! Dear lordy, keep them straight. Valerie’s husband is of the sexytime Rickman hairdo. This Adaleaide/Allison/Addison (Addison, that’s it) “Joe” Wilson of the 5 year old at a little league game maturity fame looks like the pasty-faced creepy pastor you never wanted to accidentally run into after youth events ended in the evening.
hobospacejunkie: More importantly, MELANIE OUDIN IS OUT OF THE US OPEN
I suggest calling Joe Wilson’s office immediately to protest this.
/Federer 2-0 against Soderling. *snore*
jagorev: ZOMG, he’ll be, like, the laughingstock of Twitter!
Olbermann to Wilson: “Apologize, resign or leave the country. It’s your choice, goober.”
Atheist Nun: I think there are a few million libtards who may beat him to it.
If played correctly Wilson’s outburst might signal the figurative demise of the Southern Strategy.
takes12no1: Yes I know. I was being smartypants.
You guyz — [sniff] … I … [drunken sob] I love you guyz, man.
i look forward to the autotune
Lionel Hutz Esq.: You can bet Colbert will be helping us get to know him better when he returns.
I hope the Republics keep bashing mexicans. More Democrats in the making.
shellbomber: @markhalperin I am going up and down the stairs, and you’re dripping out of me! So messy!
DoctorCulturae: Unfortunately, the ‘baggers love them a martyr.
Larry King…Ron “Rand Daddy” Paul, Obama Doc, and a womyn cutter, coming up next!
Dreamer: Representative Doctor Lord Deather* Boo-tay is nervous in the service about whether he can still get Medicare payments for his surgery patients after his speech.
To get reimbursement is all.
* Doctor Death voted to add “end-of-life counseling” in the last revision to Medicare.
jagorev: “This is a huge windfall for health insurers.”
That’s the part that scares me.
Robots eat old people’s medicine for food.
hobospacejunkie:
Mexico v. Honduras es el partido mas picante.
I blame Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln. They should have let South Carolina secede when they had the chance.
So. Checked out The Wikipedia on Ole Yeller.
His mother’s name is Wavy Gravy Wilson?
grevillea: yep. he’s just gonna be another michele bachmann now.
Snarkiness aside, that was quite simply the best Presidential speech I’ve ever heard.
All I can say is WOW. He delivered, and then some.
Why do all these State’s Rights Birchers all want to break down those same walls for insurance sales? Why are they against laws some states have?? Oh, never mind.
where does Rep. Joe Wilson reside?
Palin/Wilson 2012
jagorev: My sentiments exactly. Also grew up in a parliamentary democracy. I was hoping for some back and forth. Alas, it’s the American preznint. He has to be all dignified and stuff and cannot return the favor like a smart alec prime minister.
This is so sad: five minutes into his “response” to the President’s speech, the Repug douchebag says the plan will force people to switch to “government-run healthcare” Hussein never said that in his speech. I watche dthe speech. He never, never said that. In fact, he said people who have coverage today won’t lose it nor will they be forced to switch to anything they don’t want to. I just can’t believe the Repug douchebag said what he said with a straight face.
Wilson shouting Lie!
So, I’m in doubt about this picture because he appears to be surrounded by clones. First Mean Jean Schmidt and her (mathematically less likely) evil twin and now this guy. What is it with clones today‽
I saw the Wilson video on Huffpo, sort of. Except lousy sound. Not him yelling–just a still, but Pelosi and Biden frowning at him and looking stern. At some point, these wingers are going to be too large in number to get a broadcasting gig. How many of them can hate radio and Fauxnews suck up?
Did CNN also play “You Put Me Out In Denver Cause I Wouldn’t Suck Your Dick”? Oh, wrong album.
The House bill, H.R. 3200, excludes anyone who is not a legal resident of the United States from coverage of extended insurance provisions. Section 246 reads, “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”
And for idiots who claim the illegals are ruining our health care the American Hospital Association did a study that shows only 9% of illegals in the United States use the emergency room as opposed to 22% of the legal citizens. And based on my experience the hospital staff will do everything it can to get whatever money you have from you to pay for their services. Which are priced much, much higher than an HMO or group practice. And ERs are only required to stabilize an emergency medical condition, nothing more.
Jeez, you’d think Obama was going to free the slaves or something.
President Obama gave a magnificent speech! One of the best I’ve ever had the honor to hear.
I especially liked the part where he noted that although his plan would likely cost 900 billion over ten years, that is not as much as either the Iraq war or the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have already cost us.
The Republicans have nothing to respond with, all they can do is throw out more of the same tired, lying bullshit. They lost big tonight, and 99.9 percent of Americans won just as big.
Yawn. This is predictable as a sunrise. Tomorrow Rush will say that he’s glad Joe Wilson called the president a liar because the president IS a liar, he lies about everything, so why is everyone so upset? Then ThinkProgress and Media Matters will get all in a huff over Rush saying it and the dude over at the Washington Monthly will write something indignant and Shouty Keith will name Rush the day’s Worst Person in the World, and five minutes later we’ll be onto yelling about something else. Meanwhile everyone in Congress will be quietly assuring the lobbyists that none of the industry-unfriendly reforms Hopey proposed tonight will ever see the light of day.
I really have to remember to lay in a supply of booze before any presidential speech to Congress.
Blingee? Don’t mind if I do!
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/98682608-STFU-WHEN-OBAMA-IS-SPEAKING
DustBowlBlues: And what the hell kind of pins are the 3 in the photo wearing? They don’t look like American flags to me.
doloras: no.
THIS is the best photo evAR!
http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=5181884
The Republicans should have just had that 7′ tall ugly lankey space alien from the 70’s teevee Star Trek teevee series, you know, on the episode where the actual pilot was a midget.
Norbert: Imagined. It’s like when I tell my husband shit and he says, Is that real or is that wonkette?
I always take offense. Sniff.
Barry gave Wilson a bigtime death-stare. If daggers were flying out of his eyeballs that guy would be a dead man.
Barney Frank does not talk to Joe “Dining Room Table” Wilson.
Atheist Nun: Nicely done!
Athar: I wholeheartedly agree. He did his homework and he showed Repugs that acting like brats doesn’t do them any good. He called them upon the things they’ve done in the past to get healthcare legislation going and the camera closed in on their stone-like expressions (fuckers).
He also gave it to the town-hall clowns basically calling them a bunch of retards. I love it how he said he’s willing to listen to people who actually have ideas and that he doesn’t give a shit about conspiracy theories and baseless opinions. It was a great speech and all I could think of was “That’s my President, you motherfuckers!”
DustBowlBlues: Rich Repugs. If they lose the ‘Spanics, they can hire mal-nourished Asian immigrants to walk their kids in the park pampered, nasty miniature poodles.
The Bitters? They hate the Mexs for taking the jobs they’d never want. Like sweeping up the body parts after the last Momster Truck pull.
Atheist Nun: Mustachioed Joe Biden would have gotten MY vote in 2008.
And via Crooks & Liars:
There is an http://act.ly/iq petition going viral, asking @CongJoeWilson to apologize for yelling “YOU LIE” in President Obama’s speech.
Atheist Nun: instant classic
fukken saved!
doloras: Biden looks like he’s about to open a can of whoopass on that nitwit and Nancy is obviously preparing to pop out his right eye with her stiletto heel and skull fuck him to death with her massive “Speaker of the Hizzah” dildo (the same one LBJ used on the Dixiecrats).
chascates: An online petition — we can’t possibly fail!
chascates: Cheers! I regret that I never have time anymore to make too many of these.
Pilate: It’s dastardly!
GreatOldOnesParty: Republicans love diapers. Just ask David Vitter.
Atheist Nun: Priceless, specially the ’stash on Biden.
I just hope that when our new Nobama overlord same as the old overlord orders our deaths he will at the very least give us a soft brown-lipped kiss on our ingenuous foreheads, which dewy saliva will linger upon our brow momentarily before the Rapture (free cars!)
Atheist Nun: You are the awesome. Love the .45.
Athar: Wow. What a thoughtful analysis and tribute to the president. You do know this in wonkette, don’t you? I mean, not the Christian Science Monitor blog? Because you used the kind of polite, civilized language I only read over there. Oh, except for the bullshit part. That would never make it through their moderator.
Oldskool: bitchincamaro: thanx guize!
Gritting his teeth and with as few words as possible, Wilson has apologized:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/09/wilson-apologizes-i-let-my-emotions-get-the-best-of-me/
To Joe Wilson (R, for Retard):
http://image.blingee.com/images17/content/output/000/000/000/5e1/512605576_2026230.gif
keywords: Whiner, klansman, consumer of dickbags, 2012 Republican hopeful
El Pinche: someone needs to make a “Bag of Lightly Salted Poison Rat Dicks” stamp for Blingee.
ella: Shit. What a pussy. He should’ve stuck to his guns on this one. The more the Reppublics overplay their hand, the better.
Who’s pulling Joe Wilson’s strings?
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?CID=N00024809
Re: Joe “Pig-fucker” Wilson: it’s more surprising that he was the only one showing himself to be a braying donkey. You put 530+ Americans in one room, what are the odds that only one will be a shouty jackass?
Woah. Check out the reflexive move of Obama’s left arm right at “You lie!”
Only his cool mind (and 47 years of putting up with white people’s shit) kept him from running over and punching Joe Yeller out.
GreatOldOnesParty: yes, complete with animated glitter salt.
GuyClinch: First two are busy. The third says mailbox full. That is one phone system that is getting raped tonight.
GreatOldOnesParty: Joe Wilson’s webserver crashed and burned an hour ago.
also I copied and pasted the entire ‘Yo Mama is so ugly’ webpage and emaled it to him but it bounced. That’s okay, I have a bot that will retry every 5 seconds until it gets through.
LaurenLK: Well, yes, but really I think we can all agree that the win goes to everyone not from SC tonight… high five, fellow Buckeye!
Filtering out the lib-rads’ distortions, what Joe Wilson shouted was: Kumbaya.
Or Lebensraum.
Like, you know, homey, whatever.
— Michael Steele
********
bitchincamaro:
“Who’s pulling Joe Wilson’s strings?”
His Gyno withdrawing Joe’s interuterine device.
GreatOldOnesParty: El Pinche: Please, the amended phrase is: “bag of lightly salted giant wooly rat dicks.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8210000/8210394.stm
Who probably have better health care than we do.
This night would end perfectly if Barry goes Wayne Brady on Wilson while he’s running around with Dave Chappell at 4 am.
bitchincamaro: Joe always gets Tourettes when you fuck with his health industry cash flow. “LIAR!!! FUCK….PISS!!! ASS ….BLUE CROSS ..SHIT! SHIELD!!”
I actuallyl turned off the computer then started over because Rachel gave the talking points for tomorrow’s Family Research Council’s talking points on their big health care live interwebs thingy tomorrow: Among the usual range of death panels, is “government paid and mandated abortions.”
Whoa–they must be incredibly afraid. Mandated abortions? Mandated? Are they preaching to their own obnoxious gospel choir or reaching a new audience? Kill granny, force–hey, here’s in idea–they could require Mescuns to have abortions, but nobody else. I bet they’d really love that one.
I was live blogging Top Chef, .. what happened. Umm salty dick recipes TY.
skutre: I have a bot that will retry every 5 seconds until it gets through.
That is awesome.
Atheist Nun: here’s my take on it.
http://blingee.com/blingee/get_code/98684651?image=512614571
Erick Erickson, the conservative voice behind RedState.com, called Wilson a “great American hero.”
Just before Wilson apologized for being such an heroic douchenozzle.
bitchincamaro: good to know he’s looking out for us. and by us I mean giant insurance companies, not the people they’re supposed to protect.
Fuck us!
DustBowlBlues: I’ve read the health care debate has really energized the evangelicals. Nothing like humans trying to tamper in God’s domain I guess. But what happened to feed the hungry, heal the sick?
ella: Too late, the Internet has already directed about $20,000 to his 2010 opponent.
LaurenLK: Democratica: Hell yes. But Jean Schmidt and John Boehner and “Joe” the “Plumber” and Ken Blackwell (who we’ll see again tomorrow at the FRC wingnut-fest). Still, not nearly as bad as the assholes in those other states. Also, Sherrod Brown’s wife is pretty cool. And his ex-wife has a nice place in my hometown.
Re: Wilson… I’d just have the idiot waterboarded about 170 times…
The Right Honourable Charles, by the Grace of God, of the Chateau de Boustany, first Earl of Lake Charles, Count of Lafayette, defender of the Faith.
chascates: They tend to leave out the “…to wild animals” when they talk about “feeding the hungry”.
Back before there was a Christian Right, the Evangelicals would have come out in FAVOR of socialized medicine.
How’s that for ironic?
NewsMax.com spins the message for the red meat crowd:
Obama Vows to Pass Healthcare Bill With or Without GOP
President Barack Obama boldly declared that he will push massive healthcare legislation through Congress with or without the help of the Republican Party Wednesday night.
I checked World Nut Daily to see their response but the big news there is:
Patriots to storm Washington, target out-of-control spending
and
Obama presents ‘nativity myth’ to schoolkids
Evidence shows mother actually left days after president born
Pilate: I gave $25. In Austin, Texas Lloyd Doggett is safe so I’m going to give my pennies to the opponents of Joe Wilson, Michele Bachmann, and a few of the other cretins.
Pilate: to think one could torpedo one’s own career with a single word, live, on INTERnational TV, in front of the world.
He may as well have jumped up and called B-Rock a “Negroid”.
GreatOldOnesParty: Pretty sure some of these GOP’ers are nearly biting their tongues off trying not to call the President “boy.”
GreatOldOnesParty: Fucking A.
First the cum-dumping Assemblyman, then NoBama’s “SIT DOWN AND STFU!” speech followed by a whimpering man-who-would-be-princess responding to some other speech entirely.
Today was NOT a good day for Republicans.
And apparently Rep Wilson called the White House to apologize and spoke to Rahm. Gee I wonder waht Rahm’s response was?
GreatOldOnesParty: That was before the queers and the long-haired hippies started talking about “peace” and “love.” Jesus wore his hair off the ears, parted on the right, starched pastel polo shirt and penny loafers with no socks.
Holding Out for a Hero: so does that mean he doesn’t think the president is lying, or that his corporate sponsors don’t like the negative publicity?
Holding Out for a Hero:
Called to the wood shed by Rahm. The calling out has begun! Wish I had a Patriot Act tap on that phone conversation. Who’s your Daddy? Expletives galore.
ella: Now now, let’s give the man credit: he actually apologized for what he did. None of that “I regret you were disturbed by my wholly defensible vocal challenge” bullshit that we saw from California this afternoon.
Guppy06: If by “apologize” you mean “Repeat that he thinks the President lied to the country, and regrets that he didn’t wait until he got home to Twitter it.”
From South Carlina’s main paper, The State:
Will Congressman Joe Wilson’s remark affect South Carolina
Yes 85% ( 276 votes)
No 15% ( 48 votes)
Total: 324 votes
With a lot of negative comments.
memzilla: Duly noted, o keeper of memes, and thanks for the blingasmic Joe Wilson getting pissed on and gyrated at. It’s a good night for blingees.
Here’s the letter I sent to Joe Douchebag Wilson. Oddly, his home page states it is down for maintenance. Damn those socialist webmasters!
Dear Congressman Wilson:
I appreciate your zeal on behalf of the insurance companies and the health corporations. I hope tour shameless outburst tonight nets you more than the paltry $50,000 you have managed to whore out of them in the past 12 months.
I say this with all sincerity. I hope that you will quickly become their favorite lapdog, so that you will leave Congress as soon as possible and pursue a career as a pimp on their behalf. Then you can tell your children and grandchildren about how you valiantly strove to deny basic health care to millions, so that you could get a second house and a yacht.
Has your greed no bounds? At long last, sir, have you finally abandoned all decency?
Looks like a health insurance CEO is “dripping out of” Joe Wilson.
Pilate: Baby steps.
Guppy06: He didn’t apologize for what he did. He apologized for how he did it. Apology FAIL.
RoscoePColtraine: One day, two failed apologies.
Keeeriest!
By morning the Republican party won’t even exist.
http://img.4chan.org/b/res/159261881.html
Tomorrow when Joe Wilson walks through the halls of Congress, he’ll be texting Rahm and saying “You’re dripping out of me.”
Why can’t Joe Wilson understand that free death panels for illegals is the Christian thing to do?
George Oscar Bluth: http://cheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=5182675
Fox News, in its attempt to be fair and balanced, on Gretta’s show they had the balanced lineup of Pete Hoekstra (R - Nutsville), Griff Jenkins (R - O’Reilly’s Nut Sack) interviewing teabaggers, Rick Santorum (R-Animal Love), and and Tim Pawlenty (R - Falling Bridge) on to discuss Obama’s speech. And, really, how can you get any more balanced than three Republican’s and teabaggers? To think that O’Reilly says that Gretta is proof of balance on Fox News.
The scary thing was there were some non-teabaggers in the bar where they were interviewing the teabaggers and said they are open to Obama’s ideas. Gretta was so unprepared for a pro-Obama voice that her first question to Griff after his interviews was “But have you run into any pro-Obama people?”
Just watching the show now…my visceral reaction:
To South Carolina, we’re sorry about 1861, if you wanna succeed don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
Mr. President Borat Obama
President House, Ghastly White Paint
Washington, D.C., USA
Dear President Borat,
Jagshemash, my cousin!
You make Healthy-time on Glacial TV tonight! Jagshemash! I watch you here in Kazahkstan, with pirate feed from GI base in so-called Afghan-I-shit Republic.
I don’t understand people who don’t have healthy-care. They get free healthy-care any time they go to E.R., which is very big here on pirate-feed. Hey, ES LA LEY, says wall! Not your fault, comes from big gang of U.S. Senate peoples. No one denied, even if they speak English, like me. Jaghsemash! So, we have to make them pay, or tax their job-boss? Or send their healthy-care bills to Mexico, the black hole of international mail?
Just like Kazahkstan, with cleanest whores in Central Asia, everyone get healthy-time care in USA. Whatta ‘bout sexy-time healthy-time care? Not a problem in Kazahkstan, but big problem in Washington, no?
I embarrass, please forgive. I will not have sexy-time with your daughters, except at gunpoint from my friend, Azamat, for at least seven years, eight months, and twenty-six days. And wait (almost) three years for the other one, my brother!
I am on-water-board, as you say, about sexy-time with Michelle. I swear use condom, repeatedly, with her. Healthy-time for all!
Just one little request. My cousin getting married Saturday. Could you keep drones in New York City, just for that day? It can be our secret. Don’t tell CIA, they baaaaaad.
Jagshemash!
Borat
Wilson: I’m sorry that the President’s lies caused me to respond so emotionally!
chascates: Yeah, fuck you Joe Wilson, you dog-fucking pedobear.
And for the record, I have no problem with health care reform covering illegal aliens. They’re human beings, too, last time I checked.
So…I guess if members of congress were allowed to pack, Obama would be dead right now?
Criminy. 23K comments on the Barry speech on HuffPo. Couldn’t make it past the first 3.
No shit! The douchebag congressman, Hon. Joe Wilson, who shouted, “You lie!” at the President, is my fucking representative in the House. Never in the history of our great nation has anyone ever dissed the preznit like that before (in a joint session of Congress). Oh, the shame. I guess his base is tickled and titilated, but he’s lower than whale shit to me, and that’s at the bottom of the ocean.
Good lord, Biden eye-fucked Wilson for a solid 2-3 minutes!
I hope that Fox puts that on continuous loop for the next 24 hours…and the moderates will bolt like Japanese from Godzilla.
hobospacejunkie: They also have taxes taken out of their paychecks that they won’t ever get any back. The illegals I’ve met here in Austin only want to work hard, stay out of trouble and send their money back home. And back a number of years ago I was out of work and a friend who worked with a guy from Mexico took me out to eat & drink a few beers. When he got ready to leave my buddy gave me $5 and when the guy from Mexico looked at him he explained, ‘mi amigo no trabajo.’ The illegal then pulled out his wallet and offered me a $20. He had a $20 and 2 ones in there. I replied, ‘gracious, pero no’ and he insisted I take his pack of cigarettes and a few beers. Which I did. If it comes down to it I’ll take my chances with anyone who’ll walk across a desert or pay more money than I have to a coyote just to get to a place where he can work a shitty, low-wage job over a self-entitled, ‘native’ American patriot.
Just sayin.’
Tonight, we are all ritalin deprived republican congressmen from South Carolina.
imissopus: So cynical! It’s like you’re my long-lost twin brother. I can only hope our worst fears are not realized.
What’s that horseshit the ‘tards are waving in the air?
They can’t be serious?
How the fuck do you actually attempt to reform 1/6 of the economy of the US with a document that’s shorter than the North Pole phone book?!? Christ, my mortgage paperwork was thicker than that weak-assed shit.
4 blingees in one day!
http://blingee.com/blingee/view/98686869-Old-Yeller
The last sentence of this now-removed post works for me:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58372028@N00/3904891239/sizes/o/
GreatOldOnesParty: Exceptional! You are doing all the good. And the Atheist nun too.
Not_So_Much: lurv it!
Atheist Nun: I never realized how completely fucking awesome Joe Biden would look with a mustache. Well done.
Fun fact: Did you know that the last VP with a mustache was Herbert Hoover’s! And he was also the first Pres or VP who wasn’t a white dude, just like Hopey! (which, btw, I totally did not know we had a half-native-American VP already)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
Not_So_Much: Glorious!
Mr Blifil: Hey, South Carolinians are known for this shit. Joe Wilson can proudly trace his ideological ancestry straight back to Preston Brooks.
The South is a region with no democratic tradition. It was completely controlled by asshole Dixiecrats for generations and generations, and then those Dixiecrats became Republicans en masse and they still win 70-80% of the White vote every election across the South.
So: not getting what you want? Just yell and shout down the opposition!
Of course it’s pathetic when they’re out of power nationally - but when they’re IN power, it becomes fuckin dangerous…
RoscoePColtraine: “He didn’t apologize for what he did. He apologized for how he did it.” That’s the way Republicans always apologize: “I’m so sorry you took offense to that thing I still believe.”
DustBowlBlues: The Family Research Council’s also going to discuss Obama’s “MANDATED sex-change surgery.” My mom heard that and said, “Last week I was going before the death panel, now they want to make me a man first??!”
Atheist Nun: You won the Blingee contest.
GreatOldOnesParty: I like the Barry wildly shaking his ass at Wilson. 5 stars yo!
Re: Wilson
Apology not accepted, imbecile.
http://marmel.com/2009/09/screw-you-and-your-apology/
chascates: I delivered pizza for a little while, mostly in some wonderful neighborhoods to people you’d think they’d be better off saving their money than paying for something as extravagant as pizza delivery (why pay for frozen pizza for less than half the price when you can save by stiffing the driver instead!). But the consistently good tippers (or at least the ones you didn’t have to drive across town to a gated community to) came in three flavors. There were the dealers, who had large wads of large bills, the strippers with large wads of small bills (and you really didn’t want to think about where those bills had been), but the biggest and most consistent tippers were the ones who spoke broken English or no English or had their kids do the English speaking for them. They were the lone oases in low-rent apartment complexes filled with purebred American stiffs.
I have a lateBlingee entry.
Smoke Filled Roommate: duh, [space]
Jukesgrrl: Atheist Nun: assistant/atlas: chascates:
And that was only 2009 Biden. What about sexy 1970 Biden On The Amtrak?
I present for your approval:
http://image.blingee.com/images17/content/output/000/000/000/5e1/494057337_777311.gif
“We were not elected to fear the future. We were elected to shape it.”
Fuck all of you. Every one (except our dear editors). The rest of you can go to hell, you bastards.
factnorfiction: Everyone loves Kenneth the Page. You’re thinking of Bobby the Schmuck.
A USMC vet is running against Joe Wilson http://www.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/19079
Boustany, of whatever in the hell his name is, must be absolutely pissed Joe “Townhall Shouter” Wilson completely wiped whatever he said off the frontpages.
Wilson’s outbursts is why I continued to be frustrated with the president. These rat-fuckers are quite literally insane, and he still reaches out to them as if they were a legitimate or respectable opposition. It’s time to pull the plug and abort “bipartisanship”. These dumb-fucks are quite literally shouting at him during a formal addresses to Congress. How do you work with that? You don’t; that’s how.
Uncommon Nonsense: http://wonkette.com/410948/this-new-slob-will-save-america-from-obamacare-tomorrow#comment-404785
Lebanese descent.
When South Carolina seceded, the joke was, “Poor South Carolina - too small to be a republic, too large to be an insane asylum.”
Clearly, they were wrong on the second half of that one. Dumbfuckistan indeed.
Unlearned Hand: This is the state that fell for “McCain fathered a black baby”.
Smoke Filled Roommate: The only thing that would make it better: if it said, “I’m sorry, I’m STILL a liar.”
Pilate: Back, way back, in the day when I lived in DC I saw Joey a couple of times and, yeah, given the opportunity, I would have hit that. Good job; I even forgive you for Palin because the winky reference fits in. Art ‘n ‘at, as they would say in Pittsburgh.
LoweredPeninsula: I agree.
Shot at Wolf: South Carolina used to be famous for dueling Congressmen; see if he’ll fight you.
HE LIES
Hey, Joe Wilson, your name is ADDISON. If you can’t even tell the truth about your own name, how can anyone believe you about anything else. You, sir, are a LIAR.
doloras: Those three looks say it all. Massive fail, sucka. Obama is thinking — be glad Gitmo is closing, fool.
shortsshortsshorts: That statement goes on my door today(my office door)
Remember 09/09/09! J’accuse!
Someone make a blingee of the Family Guy evil monkey pointing his accusatory finger at Addy.
BTW, isn’t it only fitting that this Addison was a staffer for Strom Thurmond? Southerner politicians are such drama queens. “You Lie”? What is this, 1865? What an antiquated construction. It would have actually been less offensive if he said “You liar” or simply “liar”.
zhubajie: Douchenozzles at six paces. I’ll see if I can get to the insurance industry that’s running out of him. What an insufferable asshole.
LoweredPeninsula: Was thinking the same thing–how Southern, pronounced
‘EWE LAAAAAAAAH’!!!!
imissopus: “Got Cynic?”
Smoke Filled Roommate: The Hello Kitty is a nice touch.
LaurenLK: It’s not really surprising. I’ve tried it, myself, but ten bucks doesn’t go as far as it used to.
GreatOldOnesParty: Nice!
assistant/atlas: I’ve heard Biden only charges 5-cents for a mustache ride, too!
Jukesgrrl: As always, the prize is a day’s supply of anti-seizure meds, to counteract the epilepsy you get when looking at flashing things on Blingee.
chascates: Affect South Carolina? All the military bases in that district are being closed and converted to nuclear waste dumps.