By FITSNews || Prior to the election of Barack Obama, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson was a big government Republicrat who supported bailouts and deficit spending under the administration of George W. Bush.
Now that there’s a Democrat in the White House – and voters have (finally) awakened to how government has been spending their money all these years – Wilson opposes bailouts and deficit spending. How convenient, right?
Along the way, of course, Wilson took it upon himself to humiliate South Carolina by yelling “you lie” at Obama during a Presidential address to joint session of Congress … a childish stunt which has given him a tons of totally undeserved money, popularity and credibility within the limited government movement.
We’re still not buying it …
“Why did it take this long for Joe Wilson to discover his lungs?” we wrote at the time of his infamous outburst. “Weren’t there any big government lies to protest during the Bush years? Oh right, Wilson was voting for all of those.”
Anyway, that’s what makes Wilson’s self-identification as a member of the U.S. House’s “Tea Party Caucus” so ridiculous. Or his self-identification as a Republican, for that matter.
Wilson is neither. He’s a chameleon who changed his ideology based exclusively on political self-preservation, not the best interests of the taxpayers. And while the “Tea Party” is indeed an amorphous, acephalous assemblage of all sorts of people (and should be open to all sorts of people), it does not exist to provide political cover to RINOs like Wilson.
Accordingly, if U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wishes for her “Tea Party Caucus” to be taken seriously, she should show Joe Wilson the door.
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By Billy Bob July 22, 2010 at 5:45 pm
He certainly has the brains (or lack thereof) for the Tea Party!!
By snodgrass July 22, 2010 at 6:25 pm
If you look at the photo for this article, you’ll see that Wilson seems to be pointing in two different directions at the same time.
The man exudes irony.
By TaylorSC July 22, 2010 at 6:43 pm
What is conveient is that most of those tea partiers including Joe Wilson only woke up to big spending about the time a Democrat took office. My apologies to those who were already against big spending, but most of the Tea Party folks, in their own words, “have become involved in politics for the first time in thier lives.” Now that is convenient.
By flipnut July 22, 2010 at 6:45 pm
And John Spratt is a fiscal conservative. It’s always fun to watch the cockroaches scramble as an election nears.
By wayne July 22, 2010 at 7:27 pm
He was hanging on Bush “the Worst” johnson ’til he got knocked off.
By EB July 22, 2010 at 7:38 pm
The Tea Party Caucus in Washington should have been a no-go from the git-go.
The uniqueness and the strength of the TP was that they could endorse candidates for the local, district, state level without a national organization to force an homogenization of a slate of candidates.
An endorsed Tea Party candidate in SC may not be accepted by the Tea Party in New York. Yeah, I know the Tea Party Caucus is not a national political party and I don’t want it to become one.
Having an overall statement of purpose, for every local TP, to elect the best fiscally responsible person for the job without adding too much should be sufficient at this point.
For God’s sake, you don’t need to go to Washington to seek guidance on that. After all, it is The Taxed Enough Already Party.
Yeah, ole Joe is my least favorite Republican candidate for state wide or district office in SC. But you know what, I would vote to send him back to Washington this election. The democrats have made a mess in Washington over the last year and half and deserved to be stripped of power.
Joe should lay low, work on strengthening his person and show it with his actions. The Tea Party won’t help Joe with what he lacks, Joe is the only one that can help Joe.
By AI July 22, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Will made a funny. He used “Michele Bachmann” and “taken seriously” in the same sentence.
By Old Bike Dude July 22, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Joe Wilson and the Tea Party are made for one another. They’re both full of crap and both will disappear on Nov 3rd.
By OhNoNotAgain July 22, 2010 at 8:51 pm
Joe Wilson is an opportunist all right.
He used to be a person who believed in civility, or at least talked like it was important.
Floyd Spence has been rolling in his grave for a while now.
By Whippersnapper July 22, 2010 at 9:20 pm
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By Old Bike Dude on July 22nd, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Joe Wilson and the Tea Party are made for one another. They’re both full of crap and both will disappear on Nov 3rd.
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Sorry my delusional dude…. neither Joe Wilson nor the Tea Party Movement will disappear. On November 3rd, Joe will be waking up to a glorious new day when he will find an abundance of newly elected Tea Party Movement sympathizers destined to join him in the next Congress to help promote the reawakening of the values of the American Revolution. And FITS, far from embarrassing South Carolina he represented it well by speaking the truth – a truth many did not and do not want to hear. But more and more are recognizing this truth.
By Old Bike Dude July 22, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Snapper, just say no to drugs.
By Sarah Sez July 22, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Sorry WS, you hardly speak for everyone nor does your Nov 3 forecast have a snowball’s chance in hell. Wilson embarrassed me and most fair-minded South Carolinians that day.
PS: How are your climate change studies going?
By Balsak Tee Baghar July 22, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Greetings, warm summer night of enveloping amniotic fluid-style humidity!
NEWS FLASH for the dull of wit!
Joe Wilson is not a sexy man!
His monotone speech delivery system reminds me of an undertaker named Deepsheesh, back in my hometown of Calcutta!
The only women Deepsheesh could pick up were dead ones!
And even they weren’t crazy about it!
Like Joe Wilson, Deepsheesh should have worn a medical alert bracelet containing the words: NEEDS PERSONALITY TRANSPLANT!
Stat!
Joe Wilson can teabag until all of India’s sacred cows come home, but he will still remain as unattractive to women as a decomposing street beggar!
How best to describe Joe Wilson in English?
Oh, yes!
“Yuck!”
At least Jakie Knutts has fat for a personality!
Joe Wilson put the “D” — not to mention the liquid — in “douchebag”!
Even the bag doesn’t want to hold his douche!
My gods, what an unsexy, cold-blooded lizard of a human being!
It will take a beautiful goddess like the darling Nikki Haley of Lexington County to rid us of this reptile wing of the Republican Party!
Too late, Joe Wilson has already laid the egg containing his son . . . a doofus offspring and flunker of bar exams!
Reptile AND stupid!
We need smart people, people!
It’s not an SAT test!
Palin-Haley 2012!
I can see India from my house!
By Soft Sigh from Hell July 22, 2010 at 10:58 pm
The empty person and empty suit Joe “Don’t Mean Jobs” Wilson has at least one sadly funny and telling quip about him.
It is said that Rep. Floyd Spence’s family or staff said about the blindly ambitious and self-serving Wilson while Spence was very sick and hospitalized, “Don’t leave Joe Wilson alone in the room with him.”
It is also said that “Wilson for Congress” signs were up the very day after Spence died. This is probably more figuratively than literally true, but still telling, and probably not much wrong even literally.
By George July 22, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Mr. “You lie” joins the lying club.
By Gary July 23, 2010 at 12:27 am
It is the hypocrisy of most Republicans that has brought the party to such dismal state that an unknown rookie US Senator Obama was able to become President. All these Republicans should see their own faces in mirror for what they did in the last eight years before crying hoarse about budget deficits. Joe Wilson is simply pathetic and I hope the tea party crowd will not touch him with a mile long pole.
By Paula July 23, 2010 at 3:57 am
Joe Wilson will be shown the door next time around if he doesn’t fly right. They all will.
By WorkingTommyC July 23, 2010 at 7:46 am
I’ve been harping on Little Joe for years now to DO SOMETHING!
I talked to him briefly in person once back in 2007 about the illegal alien invasion and he told me in his sotto voce that he didn’t want to appear to be “racist.” GET A CLUE, MUNCHKIN! If you don’t want to take action due to fear that you’ll be called ugly names, you’re in the wrong line of work and definitely in the wrong party.
I thought at one time he’d jump at running for US Senator against Lindsey Graham but, of course, he couldn’t bring himself to do that. You see, he’s Lindsey’s buddy–he has received money transferred from Graham’s funds for his own campaign and it’s all one big puppy pile of love and adoration when it comes to RINOs.
And wouldn’t you know it! The first thing he did that ever stood out from the RINO crowd was to yell, “YOU LIE!” at Obama after which he, of course, profusely apologized for simply telling the truth.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s a TARP-voting little weasel who will never get my vote again. He can’t be trusted any more than Lindsey Graham. His record is moderately conservative but, to paraphrase Dr. Evil:
“Joe Wilson is only semi-conservative. He’s quasi-conservative. He’s the margarine of conservatism. He’s the Diet Coke of conservatism. Just one calorie, not conservative enough.”
By eggaday July 23, 2010 at 8:08 am
why does Joe Wilson talk with his hands?
why does he make the same signs as sign language??
has anyone noticed he communicates in words and signs?
and you lie/ well that had absolutely nothing to do with the President’s speech. that is representative of a personal battle with Obama, not his speech.
it was planned and intentional
By ArtVandelay July 23, 2010 at 8:49 am
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“it does not exist to provide political cover to RINOs like Wilson…”
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This is where Whippersnapper and his tea party friends need to be very careful. The tea party is being tainted by those like Wilson, Palin, Bachmann, DeMint… who are merely using this movement to line their pockets or get them elected. Once the tea party loses its popularity these “mercernaries” will denounce their ideals and claim they were for whatever is cool at the moment before they were against it.
By letting these charlatans and career politicians serve as the face of the party only hurts the tea party with average americans IMO
By BadabingBadabong July 23, 2010 at 9:58 am
“Excuuuuse me while I whip this thing out”
remind me, wasn’t the “you lie” to, as Palin “they’re real!” would say “refudiate”, when BO said no healthcare to illegal (read, soon to Grahamnatized into our new tax paying underclass to keep our illegal ponzi, again read as Social Security, scheme going) aliens??
Had nothing to do with “budget”. Joey had too many red bulls that afternoon when phoning Kevin Cohen.
I have continued to vote against Joe in the primary but i’m waivering on voting in a Marine, which I would if he would come out and say Pelosi could eff herself.
By Scooter July 23, 2010 at 10:22 am
Joe Wilson has done nothing much ever. His wife really runs that office. His yelling was so embarrassing. I would vote for anyone other than Joe, or his son for that matter. Tea Party? I did not think this country could do worse than the Bush family, but I was so wrong. I do not care if every T.P. goof ball jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge. Joe Wilson can certainly be in that group. Why not. They are bat crazy, filling the fake news media with lies and hatred.
By OhNoNotAgain July 23, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Yup. He figuratively had signs out by the day of Spence’s funeral. Literally, I think he waited a week or so.
By stevetclark July 23, 2010 at 1:42 pm
It seems that Wilson was saying you lie to Bob Inglis also.
By O'Neal Compton July 23, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Amen to that, Scooter.
“jump off the Golden Gate Bridge”… hmmm… where did we hear that in the last couple of weeks? Oh yes, our Senior Senator used that phrase in his “I ain’t gay” screed. That was pretty funny, too.
By Whippersnapper July 23, 2010 at 8:27 pm
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By Old Bike Dude on July 22nd, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Snapper, just say no to drugs.
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OK ….. Old Bike Dude, no more drugs for you!
By Ray July 24, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Joe Wilson, the biggest nothing in south carolinas history. Only looks out for himself and says fuck the average working man in this state!
By Cancerman July 24, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Joe Wilson only cares about Joe Wilson people.
By GDI July 25, 2010 at 11:53 am
To paraphrase Lilly Von Shtupp …
I’m tired.
Tired of playing the game.
Ain’t it a fwiggin shame?
I’m so tired.
Let’s face it, everything in current politics is kaput.
By Jim July 25, 2010 at 1:19 pm
The Teaparty was started and funded by the REpublican Party. It is nothing more than a GOP porgram to motivate republican voters. Its working very well and will continue so long as it continues to support Republicans.
By Staffer July 27, 2010 at 12:48 pm
The Tea Party and Wilson deserve each other.
By Eddie McCain July 31, 2010 at 7:40 am
My name is Eddie McCain, recently retired Army Sergeant First Class, and I am the Libertarian Party candidate for South Carolina’s Second District. Moving back home to Lexington County, I was pretty fed up with the de-americanizeing globalist direction our USA is headed.
My platform is Small Government, Free Enterprise and Local Decision Making. Congressman Wilson voted for TARP!! This definately made our Federal Government larger and is very Anti-Free Enterprise. He voted for CAFTA after publicly saying he would not. CAFTA was the nail in the coffin to what was left of South Carolina’s textile industry. It took textile jobs away from South Carolina and gave those jobs to people in Central America. CAFTA is definately Anti-Free Enterprise. He voted for “No Child Left Behind” which allowed for more Federal Government intrusion into our schools. This is contrary to Local Decision Making.
Though I am campaigning against Congressman Wilson, I am campaigning also against the arrogant congressional enviroment that Wilson is apart of.
If ellected I will initiate legislation to abolish the congressional retirement pension. I find it very arrogant for congress to believe that after only serving five years in congress they deserve a tax payer funded lifetime retirement check. Military has to serve 20 years!
I will initiate legislation to do away with prior congressman becoming paid lobbyist. We need to stop congressman casting votes looking out for their future employer. I will be a co-sponcer to Senator DeMints bill for Term Limits. We have to do away with “Career Politicians”.
I know I have a steep uphill battle in front of me. But I believe If there was ever a time that a third party candidate had a legitiment chance at becoming a congressman, It is now. People tell me everyday that they believe both the Republican and Democrat Party have jacked our country up. Both Republican’s and Democrat’s put us $14 Trillon in debt! Both put us $107 Trillion in unfunded liabilities with Socila Security and Medicare.
Please check out my WEB Page, though still under construction. Take a look at what I believe, and If you agree I can sure use your vote on November 2ND. Thank you!
Eddie
http://WWW.SCFREEDOMNUTS.COM