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   treered said, 2 months ago

   there is potential to grow a brain? miracles do happen!

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   NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

   This is EVERYONE in the nation after Obama got done with his speech…

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   believecommonsense said, 2 months ago

   he usually fills the hole with the confederate flag so it’s not so visible.

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   NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

   Ahhhh! “State’s Rights”!

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   cabrobst said, 2 months ago

   Wilson ought to resign.
   He is emotionally and mentally unfit to be part of a deliberative body.

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   NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

   I wish every lying, duplicitious Lib would resign…But, then I don’t trust RePubicans anymore, either… What to do?

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   charliekane said, 2 months ago

   Ventilated reasoning?

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   motivemagus said, 2 months ago

   Which, contrary to what Wilson would want you to believe, was not the cause of the Civil War. (Note that those particular Southerners use “War Between the States” to emphasize the false “state’s rights” argument.) It was slavery. Almost every time this argument has been invoked since, it has been yoked to racism.

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   NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

   ^Ancient history meme. 2009:posters here have lauded the South for being less racist than some “northern states” and do we really expect a region to give up their battle colors?

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    nomad2112 said, 2 months ago

    Civil discourse? They don’t teach that in school anymore.

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    Kingoswald said, 2 months ago

    So do Americans learn it in school, then? My parents and grandparents taught me long before I went there ….

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    Kingoswald said, 2 months ago

    “RePubicans”? Is that how Glenn Beck told you to spell it? LOL

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    cdward said, 2 months ago

    “do we really expect a region to give up their battle colors?”

    Interesting question: Did we expect Germany to give us the swastika? It wasn’t a simple matter of the Germans deciding they didn’t want it, by the way. We had much more to do with it. Besides, the stars and bars was the flag of a foreign nation, not the region. That nation was defeated and dissolved.

    But I don’t really care what they do. Perhaps the more important thing to note (re “states rights”) is that the state of South Carolina’s legislature voted to remove the confederate colors – the fed did not require it. BCS only noted that Wilson was one of a handful who voted against it.

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    pbarnrob said, 2 months ago

    Decorum quite aside (and the rank boorishness of heckling such a presentation), I recall reading that libel and slander laws Do Not Apply on the floors of Congress.

    Thus in everyday dealing (perhaps out of view of C-SPAN), a verbal knife fight is expected, so don’t expect automagic respect without earning it.

    Question is: Has the Hon. Mr. Wilson earned it? With what?

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    av8tor said, 2 months ago

    “Section 246 on page 143 of the House bill specifically says that “undocumented aliens” “will not be eligible for credits to help them buy health insurance” The bill also forbids the provider from verifying citizenship. So how can you determine the patient is an undocumented alien so you can refuse service under the law? These Washington thugs are taking them in through the back door. Congress is a cesspool of liars, thieves, inside traders, traitors, drunks (one who killed a staffer, yet is still revered), criminals, and other low level swine who, as individuals (not all, but many), will do anything to enhance their lives, fortunes and power, all at the expense of the People of the United States and its Constitution, in order to be continually re-elected. looks to me like Obama man is the liar

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    Jimathai said, 2 months ago

    maybe if u listened, and maybe if wilson listened, you would understand that Obama was talking about the bill he would sign not the house bill. Besides… you guys are going to demonize this wonderful idea of universal healthcare just because u don’t want a few illegal immigrants to receive benefits… How assanine can u get. Yet and still Obama continues to try and compromise with the right… trying to hold on to hopes of bipartisanship but when the right is saying we must do everything to kill the bill so we can ruin his presidency, that idea kinda goes out the window, eh?

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    Jimathai said, 2 months ago

    i think these radical conservatives and birthers and tenths and pumas and tea party-ers need to take a look deep inside and ask themselves what it is they are really mad at.

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    ezdeb said, 2 months ago

    Watch out, NoFear. When you begin to mistrust not only the enemy (which for you are democrats), but your own ideology, you can quickly slip into utter paranoia. It’s gettin’ pretty bad when you don’t know who you hate more, them, them, them or them, huh?

    Come to the left side! Join us!! Join us! As the tee-shirt says,

    Come to the dark side!
    We have cookies.

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    NoFearPup said, 2 months ago

    KingOswald: No; Mark Levin
    cdward: I knew people would bring up the Nazi’s and their flag. I believe certain Southerners(and others) revere their flag, and use it to denote their independent spirit; in addition to outright racists using it for their macabre enjoyment. How can you tell the difference?
    ezded: I belong to the Light side; and that’s all that’s necessary.
    AVATRBR, and others: I believe the Left is allowing illegal aliens to benefit from UHC, but I don’t care as I am not necessarily against their assimilation, ala the “ELLIS ISLAND” method of the past (making them swear allegiance and having them pass minimal health and criminal restrictions). Libs are conniving, lying, arrogant, no-holds-barred politicians who do not do anything unless it benefits them materially or position-wise.
    “You lie!” amidst a murmur of boos is “un-civil” discourse? C’mon, Libs! Grow some thicker skin!
    Libs=whiney-babies!

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    Tigger said, 2 months ago

    I recall a time when ‘W’ Addressed The House and Senate when all of the Democrats stood with their backs toward him as he entered the Chambers.

    This was just as just wrong and just as disrespectful as Mr. Wilson’s Ourburst

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    av8tor said, 2 months ago

    NoFearPup You are spot on old chap. There are millions of people out there that don’t want health Insurance.
    Especially from governments that are not able to get anything right..USPO, AMTRAC,NPR ( wow are they fair and Balanced or what?)
    These millions of people I speak of do not wish to pay a fine of 3500.00 annually for not subscribing to a national health insurance plan. And if the bureaucrats get their way they will start taxing things that are not good for you..soda pop, Sugar snacks, Ice cream.. and thousands of other products the government doesn’t you eating or ingesting. This bill is all about Hussein and his taking from those who are productive and giving to those who are not..these are welfare recipients’, more bureaucrats and many others sucking from the public trough,
    There’s more. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has suggested that the federal government could pay for health-care reform by taxing American workers’ existing health-care benefits—but he would exempt union-negotiated health-care plans. Under Mr. Baucus’s scheme, the government could impose costs of up to $20,000 per employee on nonunion businesses already struggling to afford health care plans. Is this what you kool-aid drinkers want? I doubt it, do your homework before you begin flapping your lips..and Joe Wilson should get a badge of courage for saying out loud what millions of Americans are thinking.

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    fbrewer said, 2 months ago

    @AVATRBR - Wow! Where’s the pony? With that much horse bleeep, there’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere. Do you just make this stuff up yourself, or are you getting help from the talk-radio hate machine? If you’re going to get that wild-eyed about stuff, you really should list the sources. There’s not much good on TV these days, and I could use the entertainment. Sheeze!

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    tizzo said, 2 months ago

    It’s really quite interesting that, given the way discourse has gone since well before President Obama took office, the posterboy for the lack of civil discourse in politics is, of all people, Joe Wilson – who has been labeled as such for, of all things, shouting “You lie” to the president in direct response to his utterance of a statement that he and everyone else in the chamber knew was false at the time.

    You might think back to democratic leaders, just a few weeks ago, referring to the majority of Americans who oppose the president’s health care agenda as “mobs”. That didn’t sound very civil to me.

    I also can’t help but remember the president himself suggesting that the majority of Americans who have concerns about his destructive efforts on the economy should “stop talking”, and even going so far as to characterize most of us as having caused the problem, while quite conspicuously excluding those most at fault, the leadership (to a person members of his own party, by the way) of the GSEs that we now know caused the meltdown.

    One could go back even further, to members of groups like Code Pink and MoveOn, suggesting things like the assassination of president Bush, evidently for not allowing enough Americans to die at the hands of terrorists.

    Not that Wilson wasn’t out of line. But the death of civil discourse in politics? Sorry folks, but that ship had long since sailed.

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    lindz.coop said, 2 months ago

    Only in America – please, please don’t give us affordable healthcare – we’d rather lose the house paying for it when illness strikes us.