Reflections From a Murky Pond

Remember when Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) called out President Obama during the POTUS’ speech on ObamaCare before a joint session of Congress? Wilson’s cry of, “You Lie!” had the Obama cultists, Congressional Black Caucus, and Liberals in general in an uproar filled with wild, jabbering cries of racism for weeks.

Even many Americans sadly shook our heads and wondered what had become of dignity and decorum in the political sphere.

One now has to wonder if there will be any similar outrage when indecorous and undignified commentary to or about President Obama is coming from a fellow Democrat – in this case the Democrats’ candidate for Governor of Rhode Island, Frank Caprio who publicly declared that Obama could take his endorsement and shove it.

This morning on WPRO Radio Providence, Democratic Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio, whom President Obama has not endorsed, lashed out.

“I never asked President Obama for his endorsement and what’s going on here is really Washington insider politics at its worst,” Caprio said. “He can take his endorsement and really shove it as far as I am concerned.”

Deferring to his friendship with former Sen. Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator currently an independent gubernatorial candidate who endorsed the president in 2008, the president has not endorsed Caprio.

Recent polls indicate that Caprio and Chafee are in a tight race. According to the Providence Journal, Caprio was unaware that the president would not be endorsing him until a reporter told his campaign the news over the weekend.

President Obama will visit Rhode Island this afternoon, touring the facilities of American Cord & Webbing in Woonsocket and delivering remarks at two receptions in Providence, R.I., raising money for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Caprio today charged that the president is “coming into Rhode Island treating us like an ATM machine. I will wear it as a badge of honor and a badge of courage that he doesn’t want to endorse me as a Democrat.“

Two salient facts lead me to believe that there won’t be a similar outcry against Caprio:

Firstly, much of the outrage against Rep. Wilson was fabricated by the Liberals to further the ObamaCare agenda and the rest was just the normal handout-seeking race-baiting Americans have come to expect from the Congressional Black Caucus. What little real outrage was leveled against Rep. Wilson was from the Obama cultists.

Secondly, Obama is an utter and abject failure. Even his one-time supporters have wandered away from him in disillusionment and disgust. He has gone from Messiah to Pariah with a record breaking rapidity. Liberals aren’t going to feel or manufacture any outrage over insults to Obama by their own Party members or supporters – not this close to the elections.

Who knows? Caprio’s outburst might even win him his very closely contested election.

Tags: 2010 Elections | Democrats | Frank Caprio | Joe Wilson | Liberals | Obama | Politics | Rhode Island

This entry was posted on Monday, October 25th, 2010 at 11:12 am and is filed under 2010 Election, Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

If you’re White and from the South, especially if you’re a middle class or better White man, the Liberals will always see you as a racist no matter what your views or deeds are. That’s just the way it is because that’s how they’ve been indoctrinated for generations.

To the Left It’s Always Racism – If a White Does It.

So the question devolves to what, if anything, should be the response of Whites, especially Southern gentlemen? Quietly dismiss the claims and claimants as not worthy of response? Try to defend ourselves against allegations that have no metric by which to gauge them? Counterattack by pointing out that it’s the liberals who both think in terms of race and continue to foster a slave mindset among Blacks? Teach them a lesson by showing them what racism actually is?

You’ll be branded a racist no matter what you choose to do as long as you don’t wholeheartedly and without reservation support President Obama, the Liberals in government, and their agenda. So what are you going to do?

Tags: Blacks | Joe Wilson | Liberals | Obama | Politics | Racism | Society | Whites

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Whether we wanted to or not, just about everyone in America knows that Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) called out President Obama during the POTUS’ recent speech on Health Insurance Reconstruction before a joint session of Congress. President Obama tried to convince people that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered and Rep. Wilson bellowed, “You Lie!”

Now the Liberals who’re running the US House of Representatives want to pass a Resolution of Disapproval against Wilson.

OK, to sane people this is a near criminal waste of Congress’ time. A Resolution of Disapproval is utterly meaningless and carries no penalties whatsoever; the victim doesn’t even have to be in attendance to here it, unlike the more serious Resolution to Censure where the victim does have to stand before the House and here the resolution read aloud. It serves little or no purpose except to distract from the real issues at hand.

On the other hand, the grievance-mongers in the inherently racist Congressional Black Caucus are demanding that such a waste of time be committed. They seem to believe in what passes for their minds that the KKK will rise again and burn them all out if Rep. Wilson isn’t rebuked.

I guess we’ll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside, intimidating people,” he said. “That’s the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked.

— Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Congressional Black Caucus

Of course people in America have to learn to expect such things from the Congressional Black Caucus. They’re the sort of Blacks who can’t here a sentence come out of a White’s mouth with out believing that it contains a sub-vocalized or unspoken “Boy” or “Nigger” in it somewhere.

But they’ll get their way in this, at least so far as having the resolution debated and voted upon. Whether or not it’s passed is slightly open to debate since not all Democrats want to go down that road. It sets a precedence that they don’t want to later be on the wrong side of. 😉

The GOP’s Amnesiac Response

House Republicans are obviously dead set against such a resolution of disapproval against Rep. Joe Wilson. They can be expected to vote en mass against it, not that they can balk it, or anything,  if the Dems decide to force it through. That’s expected in these partisan days. What’s not quite so expected is the GOP’s very public outrage.

If we are going to march Members down to the well of the House to apologize, Joe Wilson is going to have to get in line behind Nancy Pelosi, who attacked the intelligence community who protects us, Charlie Rangel who cheated on his taxes, Jack Murtha – a walking scandal, and we all know how the Democratic leadership tried to protect William Jefferson.

Democrats don’t want an apology. They want a side show – something to shift the focus away from their government-run experiment on health care.

— RNC Chairman Michael Steele

I sympathize with Mr. Steele’s position. I very much feel the same way and feel that the previous behavior of the Dems v. President Bush abrogated any right to outrage or offense they might have once had. But I also remember Pete Stark (D-CA) on October 18, 2007 and the GOP’s response to his lack of decorum and any vestige of respect for President Bush.

Rep. Stark hated President Bush and was not shy about saying so or degrading the POTUS and the US Military before Congress, though he, unlike Wilson, did not do so directly to the Presidents face.

First of all, I’m just amazed that they can’t figure out– the Republicans are worried that we can’t pay for insuring an additional ten million children. They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you gonna get that money? You gonna tell us lies, like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to fund the war? You don’t have the money to fund the war or children, but you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people, if we could get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.

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But, President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up… in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress.

I urge my colleagues to vote to override his veto

— Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA)
Failed override vote of Pres. Bush’s veto of S-Chip

Back then in 2007 the Republicans were overwhelmingly outraged by Stark’s statement. They felt that the statement was both vile and a blatant violation the rules of the House. The Republicans did not, however, settle for a Resolution of Disapproval; they forced a Resolution to Censure, a more serious penalty, which the House Democrats voted down.

If it was wrong then, then it is wrong now. If it was right then, it is right now. Gods, I have had it with these motherfucking idiots in my motherfucking Congress!

This is a case where I believe that the Democrats and the Republicans both need to just move on. Their ridiculous, bipartisan hypocrisy is disrespectful to the People who employ them to perform a job, not to whinge, whine, and rail at each other to no purpose.

Gods above and below! It’s so bad that the only one who’s been consistent is Speaker Nancy Pelosi; she disapproved of both Stark’s and Wilson’s outbursts but didn’t want to bother formally reprimanding either one of them.

Tags: Bush | Congress | Democrats | Healthcare | Immigration | Insurance | Joe Wilson | Obama | Politics | Republicans | US House of Representives

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 2:28 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.