Originally posted by eljefejesus
I'm glad Joe Wilson was roundly rejected by his own party.
It's not good for the country or for Hispanics for the Republicans to become so marginalized in society and from Hispanics for extremism and stupidity.
Joe Wilson is both extreme and stupid... and extremely stupid.
I mean, come on, "you lie?"
Did he decide against the more diplomatic "l source... no an exclusive source of all evel at any and all long-term political costs.
As usual you play the racism card because you have no coherent argument to make. While Joe Wislon's behavior on the surface appears unseemly we firts must examine whether he merely used a fallacious emotioa=nal outburst or if he was onto to something. To wit:
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) was right. The President was being dishonest when he said the House health care bill does not providing benefits to illegal immigrants. It does.
According to the Congressional Research Service, HR 3200 "does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens participating." The system would essentially operate on an honor system by illegal immigrants.
HR 3200 provides State Medicaid agencies with the ability to set eligibility standards for the low income subsidies. Since States are given a 100% federal match, there is nothing to discourage them from setting loose standards that allow illegal immigrants to be enrolled in the program.
With the help of the National Council of La Raza, House Democrats defeated two amendments offered to HR 3200 that would have added explicit taxpayer protections to stop benefits from going to illegal immigrants.
Senate Democrats promised Friday to include NEW citizenship verification requirements in their health care bill, proving that Joe Wilson was right about giant loophole in the House bill.
Therefore, Joe Wilson's is a lonely voice in the wilderness of Obama transparency. Thus far the only transparency is how easily one can tell his (Obama's) dishonesty.