Posted on 09/11/2009 6:54:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health care reform proposals to Congress saw a chief executive making what sounded like a genuine appeal for bipartisanship — and his opponents behaving like a bunch of spoiled first-graders. Obama should ignore them, even if they hold their breath until they turn blue.
House Republicans were particularly ostentatious in showing their disrespect not just for Obama but for the office he holds.
The outburst by Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina — who shouted "You lie!" when Obama said his plan would not cover illegal immigrants — was only the most egregious display of contempt. Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House minority whip, fiddled with his BlackBerry while the commander in chief was speaking.
Other Republicans made a show of waving copies of their own alleged reform plan, which isn't really a plan at all.
And Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas waved hand-lettered signs at the president, as if he thought he were attending one of those made-for-television town-hall meetings rather than a solemn gathering of the nation's highest elected officials.
Throughout the speech, there was grumbling, mugging and eye-rolling on the Republican side that was not only undignified but frankly un-American.
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>> Republican side that was not only undignified but frankly un-American.
Screw you Robinson and jackass you’re riding.
OK, if you can’t even write the first sentence without lying Eugene, then I’m not going to bother finishing your screed. There was NOTHING that represented a “genuine appeal for bipartisanship” - unless by bipartisan you mean “abandon your principles and do it my way”.
Well to hell with that and to hell with you!
The GOP may roll over for DeathCare but I certainly will not!
ON DU.......
They are celebrating him. From the same night.
No we won't. America-hating libtards like Robinson are the first to scream racism and McCarthyism and religious Christian zealotry everytime they're accused of being un-American.
And then they go right ahead and try to socialize medicine in an effort to subsidize health care for illegal aliens, enact a national fuel tax to fund their whorehouses in Baltimore, knee-cap our troops with their sissy rules of engagement, cut funding for missile defense for their beloved dicatators, investigate the actions of those who committed the "oh-so-torture" of animals and kept are families safe, and call us a "nation of cowards," and members of the opposing political party "assholes."
I don't ever plan to take any of these anti-American traitors seriously. Ever.
Don't you ever call me "Twinkle Toes" again.
All democRats are richard craniums and hypocrites. Just ask Sheila Jackson Lee and Cynthia McKinney, they will tell you.
5.56mm
I think Rahm is taking the Dead Fish Rahm hype a little too seriously.
Rahm I’ll spank you like the little ballerina that you are punk.
Three step plan for offended Democrats.
1. Google own behavior at 2005 State of the Union.
2. Google own behavior at 2006 State of the Union.
3. Take feigned moral outrage and shove it northbound up “six”.
We’re loud and proud. :)
Eugene Robinson is a marble mouthed, equal opportunity, below average, hopeless partisan, pretending to be thoughtful journalist.
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