[iamzack]

lol

It's like health insurance reform town hall meetings, but with congressmen wetting themselves over nothing instead of insurance reps pretending to be Joe the Plumber (TM)!

[StarSlayer]

I predict a political debate from Liberator or High Max. 

Prove me wrong.

[Mongoose]

zomg ur bein biasd obama is teh stalin!!1!1!

*ahem*

Dick move on the representative's part, but at the very least, he admitted he was a dick and apologized.

[Turambar]

Dick move on the representative's part, but at the very least, he admitted he was a dick and apologized.

Yes, but did he admit being wrong?

[iamzack]

Too late for an apology anyway. He's pretty much guaranteed his replacement in 2010.

Kinda lame that THIS is, like, obscene these days.

What happened to the good old days of southern congressmen beating other congressmen to brain trauma with their canes?

[NGTM-1R]

You want fisticuffs, go somewhere with a parlimentary setup.

[Flipside]

Doesn't even happen here nowadays, worse luck, at least if people started punching each other, or challenging each other to duels, it'd give some indication that they care.

[Akalabeth Angel]

You want fisticuffs, go somewhere with a parlimentary setup.

Taiwan

[iamzack]

Dick move on the representative's part, but at the very least, he admitted he was a dick and apologized.

Yes, but did he admit being wrong?

"This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President's remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. While I disagree with the President's statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility."

[BlueFlames]

Too late for an apology anyway. He's pretty much guaranteed his replacement in 2010.

He's from the second Congressional district in South Carolina.  That seat hasn't been held by a non-Republican since 1965.  Even if this hurts Wilson's re-election bid (and I highly doubt that), I still can't see him losing.

That said, he was still essentially slandering the President and doing so at a highly inappropriate time.  For a man of sixty-two and an eight-year veteran of the House, I'd expect the maturity to not make the remark to begin with, rather than having to beg for forgiveness after the fact.

[StarSlayer]

Fisticuffs? We've outdone fisticuffs.

[Turambar]

Too late for an apology anyway. He's pretty much guaranteed his replacement in 2010.

He's from the second Congressional district in South Carolina.  That seat hasn't been held by a non-Republican since 1965.  Even if this hurts Wilson's re-election bid (and I highly doubt that), I still can't see him losing.

Apparently his opponent has recieved upward of $50,000 in contributions since the incident.

[BlueFlames]

Apparently his opponent has recieved upward of $50,000 in contributions since the incident.

A tally that will not be sustained, through November 2010 (by which point, this event will be long-forgotten), and a sum that will likely be spent well before then.

I think Wilson acted like a jackass, who deserves to be voted out, but the political reality is that this won't be what convinces his constituents to do so.  All this event has done is momentarily galvanized those on the political extremes, and in his district, there are a lot more people on his extreme than on the opposite.

[iamzack]

He didn't win by much last time around.

However, lots of people are calling the douchebag a hero and such nonsense. Why can't we just put all the morons on a big island together and forget about them? They'll be happy with their straight white christian only demographic, and the rest of us can work on improving civilization.

[Mongoose]

However, lots of people are calling the douchebag a hero and such nonsense. Why can't we just put all the morons on a big island together and forget about them? They'll be happy with their straight white christian only demographic, and the rest of us can work on improving civilization.

If you want representative democracy, then you have to deal with the bad as well as the good.  Even when the bad makes you want to pound your head against a wall.

[Nuke]

balls of steel

they need to make that guy president.

[BlueFlames]

He didn't win by much last time around.

Sure.  Only an eight-point margin.  Barrack Obama only managed a seven-point margin over McCain in the Presidential election, and McCain literally got his primary and general election strategies reversed.  Add to this the historical precedent of the President's party (whoever the President may be) losing seats in mid-term elections, the low voter turnout in mid-term elections, and the ridiculous 90+% incumbency rate in the House (especially in mid-term elections), and this whole event, in terms of electoral politics, is a nonevent.

I don't like Joe Wilson.  I'm not defending his actions, but there's a reality here that you just need to deal with:  This is not the act that will unseat him, full-frakking-stop.

Oh, and classy endorsement of internment camps.  The Japanese-Americans of the '40's loved 'em, so why won't Whitey, right?

Mistakenly lumped in with the split.

[Unknown Target]

He didn't win by much last time around.

However, lots of people are calling the douchebag a hero and such nonsense. Why can't we just put all the morons on a big island together and forget about them? They'll be happy with their straight white christian only demographic, and the rest of us can work on improving civilization.

You need the conservatives as well as the liberals. If you have only liberals then your society would basically turn into Britain, which the next logical step being V from Vendetta.

If you had only conservatives, you'd end up with a religious theocracy.

It's good that we have the idiots, because sometimes they are right; and they hold us back enough so  that we don't bound forward without restraint and fall into a ditch. Sometimes they hold back too much, but progress inevitably marches forward.

[iamzack]

No. Social conservatives have no place in a free and civilized society. If anything, they advocate moving towards V for Vendetta, not away from it. They only want small government when it benefits themselves and no one else.

[General Battuta]

He didn't win by much last time around.

However, lots of people are calling the douchebag a hero and such nonsense. Why can't we just put all the morons on a big island together and forget about them? They'll be happy with their straight white christian only demographic, and the rest of us can work on improving civilization.

You need the conservatives as well as the liberals. If you have only liberals then your society would basically turn into Britain, which the next logical step being V from Vendetta.

V for Vendetta was a fascist ultraconservative state. Isolationist, xenophobic, surveillance-heavy.