Michelle Moore, the Director of Technology for Smart Girl Politics, told me about a thing she used to do on her blog, A Traditional Life Lived. She said she used to write posts about people she would like to punch in the face. She told me she wouldn’t really hit them, but she really wanted to.
That’s how I felt today listening to Rep. Alan Grayson talk on the floor of the House about what he described as the Republicans Health Care Plan.
This two minute speech really stretched my ability to blog without obscenities.
Joe Wilson said two words and the Congress voted to condemn him. This tool ranted for two full minutes, slandering every Republican in America, and he not only refused to apologize, he went further into lunacy by comparing the health care situation in American with the Holocaust:
Instead of saying he was sorry about accusing Republicans of wanting people to “die quickly,” he gave an apology “to the dead.”
“I would like to apologize,” he said. “I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in America.”
His sarcasm, delivered on the House floor, drew a swift rebuke from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which hopes to see Grayson defeated in an Orlando-based swing district next year.
“This is an unstable man who has come unhinged,” NRCC spokesman Andy Sere said. “The depths to which Alan Grayson will sink to defend his indefensible comments know no bounds.”
As a reference, there were over six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. How many die from a lack of health care insurance in America? According to a recent study from Harvard Medical School researchers (tip of the hat to The Loud Talker), about 45,000 a year.
For reference, at that rate, it would take 133 years to equal the death toll the Nazis racked up in under a decade.
Nancy Pelosi has yet to condemn this lack of civility. Word is she is still crying over the harsh rhetoric coming from the right.
I don’t intend to punch anyone in the face, but I assure you one thing. When I find out who is running against this worthless jackass, I will be donating to his campaign.
And to any Democrats reading this, you know who I am talking to, is this who you are, because this is what your party has become. This speech has not been condemned by anyone in party leadership. Their silence is deafening. What you will find are scores of lefties not only defending him, but adamantly claiming he’s right.
But the right is the divisive side.
