Mario to Joe Wilson: You Lie!!!

Mr. Wilson, you are a liar. Many are pointing out how disgraceful they believe your actions were last night as you pointed your finger at the President of the United States and shouted "you lie." I, however, will side with those who say that if somebody is lying , especially somebody in power , then they need to be called out on it. So, Mr. Wilson, I must say to you, "You are a liar." In fact, as I write this your pants are probably smoldering and if they are, you assuredly can smell the smoke because undoubtedly your nose has grown a number of inches since last night.

The president last night told the truth about the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the health care bill. The fact that Obama was telling the truth makes you a double liar. Mr. Wilson, you accomplished the feat of being a double liar by number one, furthering the lie that the undocumented qualify for coverage when they are explicitly excluded and number two, by calling the president a liar while he was telling the truth. So you actually qualify for the term "Liar, liar" as in "Liar, liar, pants on fire."

Mr. Wilson, I understand that you had to scream out. The president was calmly dismantling the lies that you and others have created in order to thwart health reform. The lie that the undocumented can benefit in anyway from reform is a powerful one. It joins the specter of an action by an African American president to the hatred of immigrants that you and others have used as political currency. I have to admit that this combination makes for political dynamite and, of course, since you have no real ideas for health reform divisive lies may be the only tools at your disposal. Therefore, considering your weak and ethically compromised position, I can understand the visceral impulse to scream out like a wounded animal. But, Mr. Wilson, that does not change the fact that the statement that the undocumented can benefit from health reform is a lie, you know it is a lie, therefore you are a liar.

Mr. Wilson, your inability to suffer in silence as your castle of lies was dismantled in front of millions of people has in fact helped the cause for reform. You, Mr. Wilson, will be banished by your GOP colleagues who recognize a political liability when they see one. Your fellow Congressmembers will tell you to keep a low profile while no doubt you will be asked on every talk show imaginable. (By the way, I have asked my producer to contact you.) But while they will tell you that you need to step aside "only temporarily" they are lying to you. Mr. Wilson the truth is that you will be a political pariah for the foreseeable future. When your colleagues tell you to be a back bencher for only the "time being" look at how their eyes shift and notice how their breathing becomes shallow and you will see the same patterns that they have when they repeat their favorite lies about health reform.

Mr. Wilson, you will soon see that the currency of politics is trust. While you may be touted as a hero for screaming at the President of the United States by some, most of your constituents and colleagues will now always take your words with a bit of salt. That, Mr. Wilson, is no lie.

Mario Solis-Marich can be heard on Am760 in Denver and at www.GotoMario.com Monday through Friday from 4 PM to 7 PM MT.

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Comments

[tantrictim]

http://tiny.cc/mlu6B

The controversial congressman has been a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans. Max Blumenthal, author of the just-published Republican Gomorrah, asks: Did he remain so even after it became a hate group?

[norman60]

There are many joe wilsons in the Republican party. They make us stupid, small and mad. They want to be in authority but have no respect for authority. They want public office and do not possess the demeanor to occupy it. They want it for all the wrong reasons. It's time to purge of politics of these bad eggs.They are not worth any dime or a vote.

[CelticMajic]

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[zanzig]

"You, Mr. Wilson, will be banished by your GOP colleagues who recognize a political liability when they see one."

Sadly Mario, he is now a hero to them. I think you overestimated the decency of the entire GOP.

[Zelyony1750]

Hi!
Let me ask you guys a question.Are undocumented aliens allowed to join the Army? If an illegal alien is allowed to join military service then he/she could qualify for healthcare; but of course, the individual would have to serve a minimum of 4 years and study and pass a citizenship class. How about that?

Here is another idea; Only children (citizens) could qualify for healthcare. Most babies begin life pretty healthy, right? So why would big insurance company sponsored- Republican/ blueDemocrats have anything to sqwak about? When a healthcare bill finally gets passed, it would begin with children two years old or younger. A baby born to a drug- addicted mother would not qualify.

What is cheaper? Healthcare for children or a new fighter jet aircraft, or a guided missle,or maybe a new atomic submarine or pouring money into some corrupt mid-East war-lord who is going to point the guns (supplied by us) at our brave soldiers whom we will send to the field to protect our interests, (whatever that means). What is cheaper? Anybody know?
Peace!

[carlosgriffin]

Everyone is missing the real issue. What the bill says does not matter, and Mr. Wilson knows that Obama knows. Two lower courts have already ruled on this and the Supreme court refused to hear it, so the bottom line is (and Obama knows this) if the government offers a program to everyone it automatically includes illegals.

[Dosadi]

Sedition is a term of law which refers to overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws. Seditious words in writing are seditious libel. A seditionist is one who engages in or promotes the interests of sedition.
Sedition is the stirring up of rebellion against the government in power. Treason is the violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or state, giving aid to enemies, or levying war against one's state. Sedition is encouraging one's fellow citizens to rebel against their state, whereas treason is actually betraying one's country by aiding and abetting another state. Sedition laws somewhat equate to terrorism and public order laws.

[darr]

Not only is he a double liar, he also obviously did NOT read the actual bill. For anyone to say that the bill is going to cover illegal aliens they would have to then explain why the TITLE for section 246 of the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 is ""No Federal payment for undocumented aliens."
That just says it all there. How in the world can you construe that?
I think this was a big deal and I think he SHOULD be sanctioned! My god if anyone even thought of disagreeing with Dubya's admin they were automatically labeled as traitors! If the republicans can call Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), a decorated Vietnam Veteran, a coward and a traitor, then we certainly should at least sanction Sen WIlson!

[CelticMajic]

While each bill says it will not cover illegals there is no mechanism to enforce it as none was allowed to emerge from committee. Hence when the President made is statement he was not being intellectually honest.

On July 30 2009, a House committee voted against a Republican amendment offered by Rep. Nathan Deal that would have required health care providers to use the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program to prevent illegal aliens from receiving government health care services. All Republicans and five Democrats voted for it, but 29 Democrats voted against it, killing the amendment.

If there are indeed no provisions in this bill for illegal aliens, as the claimed, then why not adapt an amendment to prevent just that.


And no I do not believe the congressman's actions were appropriot.

[dctackett]

That is like saying that you have to write in a mechanism to enforce that payments are not doubled, that past claims are not paid, that denied claims aren't paid, that every possible thing not intended does not actually occur.

What other entitlement programs have the use of SAVE, or other such mechanisms, written into the their laws?

[CelticMajic]

they all should

[Bobotheclown]

Joe Wilson is now famous. In the future people will use the phrase "as rude as Joe Wilson" to describe someone who has completely lost touch with the normal rules of adult behavior.