Ellis,

An ellipsis has three dots.

Your friend,
MiB

YOU LIE!

Let's talk about the many displays of GOP class from last night, shall we?


We'll start small, with the merely rude. House Minority Whip and lone Congressional Republican Jew, Eric Cantor, was caught playing with his Blackberry during the speech. Not really anything new, ever since Congress discovered Twitter.


But walking out of the President's Address before the end? That's significantly more rude. Lack of decorum (or incontinence) however, overtook Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois several minutes before President Obama completed his remarks.


Taking the cake however, was Rep. Joe Wilson with his now infamous "You Lie" temper tantrum.

This led to him being ordered by the House GOP leadership to apologize to the President. Don't see THAT too often from the current GOP leadership, so you can see how bad that was. He could very well end up being censured before this is over. The look on Nancy Pelosi's face is priceless in this video. Joe Biden looked like he was about to get up and kick this guy's ass. Maybe if he were as classy as the rest of South Carolina, he wait for three days and then beat the shit out of him with a cane on the floor of the House. But alas, Joe Biden is no Southern gentleman.

BTW, Wilson's Democratic opponent in his district has raised over $500,000 for his campaign in the past day because of this. I love when shit like that happens.

Of course, he has become a right-wing hero, despite the fact that about five minutes of research shows that Obama was telling the truth, and therefore Wilson was the one lying (or at least being aggressively ignorant).



Wilson seems to quite the history of aggressive ignorance already, though now he has raised his stature significantly among the aggressively ignorant. If he tries really hard, he might someday rise to the level of his political idol Strom Thurmond in the stratosphere of aggressive ignorance!!!


Stay classy, GOP. You stay classy...

Yes, that is in the House Bill.

What is missing, however, is a mechanism that would determine if people here illegally are enrolled in a health insurance plan that is receiving subsidies from the federal government.
Until that is put into place, that provision will not be enforcable. As it stands now, we are operatng in a sort of "don't ask, don't tell" mode.

Any health reform should have provisions to insure illegal immigrants.

You stay classy, bart.

Nice preston brooks reference, David.

That post took a lot of work. I appreciate your appreciation.

Baucus and Conrad are going to add a provision that would somehow require proof of citizenship.

Wilson may have broken protocol, but he was right - those 2 Senators just proved that today.

By default it will. It's not like ER's are going to ask for landed status documentation. They'll treat the person, eat the costs and then pass the costs onto the government and private insurance companies.

Isn't that pretty much what anti-immigration people say is happening now? ER service does not equal insurance.

They proved something. Not sure it was that any of the parties involved are "right" about anything.