Thank You Mr. Wilson

Representative Joe Wilson got so angry listening to President Obama repeatedly lie to a joint session of congress the other day that he barked "you lie" loud enough for all to hear, and now we - America's conservatives - are supposed to feel embarrassed by Joe's outburst. We're suddenly expected to "tone down" the rhetoric, so that MSNBC and the New York Times don't end up committing suicide by hissy fit.

Yeah right!

Sure, what Joe did was uncouth... okay it was downright rude, and I suspect his mother has scolded him brusquely for it by now. Still, it was far less objectionable than what Barack Obama was doing at the time, which was swearing up and down that he's really against doing everything we all know he wants to do, and would have done already if we hadn't stood in his way.

Charming Barry (as I like to call him) has been behaving like a perfect horses ass of late, as have his many minions in both houses of congress and the "mainstream" news media, and frankly, every single one of them is wearing on my last nerve! I don't care how politically correct or etiquette-obsessed you may be, if you're anything like me you stood up and exclaimed "HELL YEAH" when you heard the junior congressman from South Carolina state aloud exactly what most of us on the right were thinking at that moment.

Oh, and before I forget, when did it become acceptable for any president to call a special joint session of congress to order just because he's got a bug up his butt about some relatively mundane policy issue? The U.S. Capitol building is not some run-of-the-mill town hall that the chief executive gets to use whenever the mood strikes him. If he's not delivering his annual State of the Union address, declaring his intention to take America to war, or commenting on some other truly extraordinary event, he has no business making speeches there.

He's the head of the Executive branch, not the king of the federal government, and I take very vocal exception to him overstepping the bounds of his office in this way. Mr. Obama's speech amounted to an abuse of authority that I hope is never repeated by any future president, and the fact that I haven't heard a single Republican office-holder object to the event on these grounds is more than a little disquieting.

Furthermore, anyone who wants to preach to me about Congressman Wilson's "disgraceful" breach of decorum had better at least be willing to admit up front that the man he was directing his discourteous remarks toward is one of the most arrogant and condescending jackasses to ever hold high political office in this country. If you can't bring your self to do that, then I suggest you keep your big, fat trap shut about what you consider to be acceptable public behavior.

Maybe no one ever pointed this out to some of you "right-leaning" folks, but America wasn't built by a bunch of whiny tight-asses who preferred getting kicked in the teeth to experiencing the (apparently intolerable) shame of those rare individuals who proper society has deemed dreadfully impolite. No, this nation was founded - and has since been held together - by real men and women who never hesitated to call a spade a spade, even when doing so meant that they might be labeled cretins by their peers.

America is indeed the land of the free and the home of the brave, but it's also a country inhabited by hard-working, God-loving and often crude sons o' bitches who don't take crap from anyone, most especially public officials who owe their jobs to we the people. So when some little-known freshman Rep. decides he's had enough of the lying, and injects a little truth into a massive, steaming pile of partisan bullsquat, I for one am willing to forgive his temporary disregard for propriety in the name of good, old fashioned, righteous indignation.

Sue me!

Edward L. Daley