{"id":5395,"date":"2009-09-11T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2009-09-11T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T17:00:23","slug":"two-outbursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5395","title":{"rendered":"Two Outbursts"},"content":{"rendered":"

When former President Bush gave his state of the union a few years ago, a clutch of Democrat legislators, hidden by their numbers, booed.\u00a0 They profaned their office and attacked the dignity of the President’s address – and not a one of them had the cojones <\/em>to identify themselves, much less either apologize or elaborate.\u00a0 It was sophomoric at best, cowardly and solopsistic at worst.<\/p>\n

Rep. Joe Wilson broke protocol, and rudely so, by standing up and called the President a liar during his Health Care pep rally<\/strike> campaign speech<\/strike> address earlier this week.\u00a0 Unlike his Democrat forebears, he apologized later.<\/p>\n

But let the record show, as an emailer pointed out this morning, that Wilson was right:<\/p>\n

President says his proposed health insurance law will not give taxpayer-funded health insurance coverage to illegal aliens.\u00a0 Proposed law says specifically that illegal aliens are not covered.<\/p>\n

BUT . . . proposed law also says the government is forbidden to ASK if the person is an illegal alien, or to demand proof of citizenship\/legal residence.<\/p>\n

In my mind, that\u2019s like Don\u2019t Ask \u2013 Don\u2019t Tell.\u00a0 Official military policy is that gays are not allowed to serve in the military.\u00a0 But the military is forbidden to ask if you\u2019re gay.\u00a0 So the end result is that gays DO serve in the military as long as nobody talks about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I wish the President would explain why that won’t be the same result with the insurance plan.\u00a0 Illegal aliens will show up to apply for taxpayer-funded health insurance coverage, the government won\u2019t be allowed to ask if they\u2019re illegal, so the illegal aliens will get coverage as long as nobody talks about it, right?\u00a0 If not right, why not?<\/p>\n

The President who says the law will not give insurance to illegal aliens but the Congressman who says the President is lying about what the law will do.\u00a0 I\u2019m on the Congressman\u2019s side in this one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a time and a place to attack the President.\u00a0 I’m not entirely sure that a glorified campaign stump speech isn’t <\/em>one of them – but nonetheless, at the very least we are to respect the office if not that man, his (misguided) policies and his (misleading) rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Might have been rude to interrupt the speech.\u00a0 But he was right.\u00a0 I\u2019d rather my Congressman risked being rude to be right.\u00a0 Good for him.\u00a0 Wish we had a few like him from Minnesota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, we do; Michele Bachmann isn’t one to hold back when she’s on a tear – to her occasional chagrin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Doesn’t seem like such a bad trait, sometimes, these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When former President Bush gave his state of the union a few years ago, a clutch of Democrat legislators, hidden by their numbers, booed.\u00a0 They profaned their office and attacked the dignity of the President’s address – and not a one of them had the cojones to identify themselves, much less either apologize or elaborate.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}