OMFG!!! The Hill has the goods on Congressman Wilson

[Yonivore]

Wilson regularly took caffeine pills in 2007 (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/58257-wilson-regularly-took-caffeine-pills-in-2007)
:lmao

[nuclearfm]

Wilson regularly took caffeine pills in 2007 (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/58257-wilson-regularly-took-caffeine-pills-in-2007)
:lmao

I thought you were going to talk about how he was an aide to Strom Thurmond during his pro-segregation advocacy.

[Marcus Bryant]

Holy shit. Someone went off script. We're all supposed to bow and genuflect at the presence of the American monarch, though clearly GW had a different idea.

[Winehole23]

In fact, over his entire congressional career [2002-present] , health professionals represent Wilson’s top industry contributors, donating a total of $244,196 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database (http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00024809&type=I). He received another $86,150 from pharmaceutical companies, $73,050 from insurance companies and $68,000 from hospitals and nursing homes.

[Yonivore]

I thought you were going to talk about how he was an aide to Strom Thurmond during his pro-segregation advocacy.
Why would that be scandalous?

After all, Barack Obama has been associated with racists, bigots, socialists, and communists his entire adult life and none of it rubbed off on him.

[Nbadan]

Joe Wilson's Dirty Health-Care Secret
Newsweek
By Adam Weinstein


Poor Joe Wilson. The conservative Republican representative from South Carolina stepped in it Wednesday night when he broke with centuries of decorum by screaming, "You lie!" at President Obama during his health-care speech to a joint session of Congress.

Cut the man some slack. He's passionate! I know this because he told me, in the sole message that blazes across his campaign Web site: JOE WILSON IS PASSIONATE ABOUT STOPPING GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE!

Except that he's not;at least not when it comes to his, and his family's, government-run health care. As a retired Army National Guard colonel, Wilson gets a lot of benefits (one of which, apparently, was not a full appreciation of the customs, traditions, and courtesies that mandate respect for one's commander in chief). And with four sons in the armed services, the entire Wilson brood has enjoyed multiple generations of free military medical coverage, known as TRICARE.

<snip>

To be fair, Wilson has been consistent in his policymaking if not his personal life: according to his last congressional opponent, Wilson voted 11 times against health care for veterans in eight years, even as he voted "aye" for the Iraq War (during the debate on the war vote, he even called one Democrat "viscerally anti-American"─several times). He voted to cut veterans' benefits─not his own─to make room for President George W. Bush's tax cuts. He repeatedly voted for budgets that slashed funding to the Veterans Administration and TRICARE. And perhaps most bizarrely, he refused─repeatedly─to approve Democratic-led initiatives that would have extended TRICARE coverage to all reservists and National Guard members, even though a disproportionate number of them have served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan─and many lost access to their civilian work benefits when they did so.

<snip>

"As a 31-year Army Guard and Reserve veteran, I know the importance of TRICARE," he said in a press release. "The number of individuals who choose to enroll in TRICARE continues to rise because TRICARE is a low cost, comprehensive health plan that is portable and available in some form world-wide." He went on to call TRICARE "world class health care," concluding on a personal note. "I am grateful to have four sons now serving in the military, and I know that their families appreciate the availability of TRICARE," he said.

What does that mean? Nothing─except that Joe Wilson was against government-run health care before he was for it. And now he's against it again. Just not when it comes to his own flesh and blood.

Adam Weinstein, an Iraq veteran, is a freelance journalist. He is uninsured.

Newsweek (http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-s-dirty-health-care-secret.aspx)

[Yonivore]

I'm pretty sure political contributions aren't secret...unless, of course, you're Christopher Dodd or Charles Rangel...

Obama's dirty little Healthcare secret:

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/seiu.gif

[Nbadan]

Oh, Oh.....crazy Colonel Uncle Joe could be looking at jail time..


“Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

- Article 88 Of The UCMJ

[Yonivore]

My bad...that's for another thread.

A person would be an idiot not to avail themselves of a service that exists whether or not they oppose it.

I pay enough in taxes that, if I were eligible for an existing government service, I'd use it.

[Yonivore]

Oh, Oh.....crazy Colonel Uncle Joe could be looking at jail time..



- Article 88 Of The UCMJ
Seriously? No, really, you're being serious?

[jack sommerset]

Wilson regularly took caffeine pills in 2007 (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/58257-wilson-regularly-took-caffeine-pills-in-2007)
:lmao

They better be over the counter.

[Marcus Bryant]

LOL. I mean, seriously. Naturally instead of addressing the actual assertion we must learn about every boring bit of Joe Wilson's life. That's all you stupid little fucking tools know how to do.

[Marcus Bryant]

Unleash the left wing character assassins. Understandable, though. Obviously the country is blanching at what you actually have to offer so it's time to find someone's life to rake through the coals. Predictable, and boring.

[iggypop123]

damn he is no longer a hero now