On Wednesday Evening, September 9, President Obama made an address to a joint session of the Congress. In this address, he was discussing two major items. The first was the pending health care reform bill (or as I like to refer to it as the health insurance reform bill), and the second was to address the lies, fear mongering and outright attempt to kill any reform in the are of health care.

During this session, President Obama mentioned that one of the lies about the bills under consideration was that they would allow illegal aliens to be participants. He stated flatly that that was not true. At that point a rude asshole from South Carolina, Representative Joe Wilson shouted out “You Lie”. Wilson broke a precedent in the Congress that had stood for 200 years, you do not shout and demean the President during an address in the Congress. Is shows a total lack of class. Of course in my humble estimation, that pretty much sums up the Republican Party of the past couple of decades. NO CLASS.

The Republican Leadership, in the form of John Boehner, responded to Mr. Rahm Emanuel’s demand for an immediate appology from Wilson. Boehner finally convinced Wilson that he was an ass and should make the appology. Wilson did a half hearted and half assed appology given to Rahm Emanuel for the President.

I would bet, dollars to donuts that immediately following the session that the republicans feted Wilson at one of the many watering holes in the District. Most likely the Old Ebbits Grill or some other high dollar place so they could waste more of the taxpayer dollars on a total cretionous jerk.

Lucky things do happen however, Wilson’s democratic opponent has recieve a substantial increase in his campaign donations, to the tune of more than 450,000 dollars at last count. Some good did come out and if there is a God in Heaven, Joe Wilson will be sitting out the next congress after getting his butt handed to him by the Democrats.

This sort of stuff goes on all the time. What is it with Republicans, conservatives, libertarians or simply religious fundamentalists bible thumpers? Do they have a mental block about how they appear to people? They rage and curse, gnashing their teeth and beating their breasts over the Democratic plans as being no good, yet, they have no alternatives. Oh wait, there was one put forth by Boehner I believe. Cancell all group insurance, cancel medicare cancel medicaid and let people buy their own policies.

Yep, that would work. Even with group coverage where one has their company and it’s HR department backing them, in a majority of cases they get totally screwed by their insurance company’s propensity for denial of claims. It is the industry’s basic response to any claim, denial unless challenged. But the Republicans would have you believe that you could get good health care with an individual policy. Certainly this must be true, the GOP backs it.

Frankly folks I wonder about a good portion of the American people when they appear to have been beaten with a STUPID STICK in their idiotic adherence to everything the GOP says as if it were written in the stone tablets and brought down from the Mount…..

Gad, will reason never come to these folks. Why are Republicans so obtuse? Because they like being that way. Like a Rock, only dumber.