Thread: Joe Wilson lies!

However, in 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, which contained Sec. 1011 authorizing $250,000 annually between 2003 and 2008 for government reimbursements to hospitals who provide treatment for uninsured illegal immigrants.

http://www.opencongress.org/articles...nts-Healthcare



I'm sure it doesn't matter to the right wing, though. There seems to have been a post-facto expiration date applied to the "things that I am outraged about today".



All outrage must be applied only to anything that happened after Obama was inaugurated.

[quote name='Blueneck' date='13 September 2009 - 07:16 PM' timestamp='1252883812' post='21039']

http://www.opencongress.org/articles...nts-Healthcare



I'm sure it doesn't matter to the right wing, though. There seems to have been a post-facto expiration date applied to the "things that I am outraged about today".



All outrage must be applied only to anything that happened after Obama was inaugurated.

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I'll give him a break in that all politicians lie. However:



1. His name isn't Joe - It is Addison Graves "don't call me ditchdigger" Wilson



2. As I believe he has taken hundreds of thousands from the health care industry, he long since sold his worthless soul to big business



3. He ill timed comment shows a distinct lack of class - but since he is a Strom Thurmond slavery disciple, expecting civility would appear to be out of character

Some hero.

To be fair, Wilson has been consistent in his policymaking if not his personal life: according to his last congressional opponent, Wilson voted 11 times against health care for veterans in eight years, even as he voted "aye" for the Iraq War (during the debate on the war vote, he even called one Democrat "viscerally anti-American"─several times). He voted to cut veterans' benefits─not his own─to make room for President George W. Bush's tax cuts.



He repeatedly voted for budgets that slashed funding to the Veterans Administration and TRICARE. And perhaps most bizarrely, he refused─repeatedly─to approve Democratic-led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan─and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thega...re-secret.aspx

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Some hero.







http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thega...re-secret.aspx

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Sorry Blue - if you are talking about the "you lie" statement, there will be dozens of orgasmic posts. However, if you want to talk record it seems to be quite quiet. Reminds me of Palin - they loved her on the attack and called her a bulldog, but when confronted with her statements/lies there was..........well, gee...............we sort of all know what happened then.

[quote name='International Underwriter' date='14 September 2009 - 09:38 AM' timestamp='1252939134' post='21183']

Sorry Blue - if you are talking about the "you lie" statement, there will be dozens of orgasmic posts. However, if you want to talk record it seems to be quite quiet. Reminds me of Palin - they loved her on the attack and called her a bulldog, but when confronted with her statements/lies there was..........well, gee...............we sort of all know what happened then.

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More on Joe and his love for the corporations that see profits as the goal of health care

Wilson is a major recipient of contributions from the health care industry. In fact, over his entire congressional career, health professionals represent Wilson's top industry contributors, donating a total of $244,196 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database.



He received another $86,150 from pharmaceutical companies, $73,050 from insurance companies and $68,000 from hospitals and nursing homes. Among Wilson's top contributors are the American Hospital Association, a lobby group that represents the interests of hospitals and health networks, and the American Medical Association, which represents physicians.





http://www.southernstudies.org/2009/...y-darling.html

This must be one of those Kryptonite for Right Wingers threads, by the number of conservative replies.

[quote name='Davocrat' date='14 September 2009 - 12:53 PM' timestamp='1252947218' post='21227']

This must be one of those Kryptonite for Right Wingers threads, by the number of conservative replies.

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Do you suppose there's a way to turn them all into kryptonite?

It's really telling that the loudest shouter at the Obama healthcare speech, reminiscent of the recent town halls, voted for illegal healthcare funds.



The Faux outrage of Wilson, trying to be accepted by those who shouted at townhalls, and get votes.