If you watched the President last night...

[smarriveurr]

... as he spoke to a joint session of Congress, in an historic event that occurs at momentous times in our national history - the wake of the September 11th attacks, after President Kennedy was shot - and you were, like myself, flabbergasted to hear a member of the United States Congress heckling the President of the United States in a speech on

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[troubleagain]

Yeah, that was....bizarre.

[smarriveurr]

I believe the word I used was "unbefuckinglievable".

Still, he just helped his opponent raise over a hundred grand in less than 24 hours... so maybe he'll learn to wait his turn when adults are talking.

[desh]

As my cousin said in IM about the picture:

MBH: they all have such great and different looks
MBH: Nancy Pelosi is like
MBH: JOSEPH...WILSON!
MBH: DETENTION!
MBH: Barack is like a tiger eyeing his pray or something
MBH: and Joe Biden is about to murder someone

[smarriveurr]

I think that look is "Is the VP gonna have to choke a bitch?"

Speaker Pelosi, on the other hand, looks about as shocked as someone should be to hear the President getting heckled during an address.

The President, though... honestly, that reminds me of the look from that one interview, where he tried to shoo away the fly. That "alright, so we're gonna do this" look he finally gave it right before he swatted it.

[smarriveurr]

See, and the thing is, I tend to enjoy the concept of Question Time. But this is the US, we don't have that tradition; it's unbelievably, ludicrously rude to interrupt the chief executive during an address.

It'd be one thing if he could fire back, the way Question time allows. But hitting someone like that while they have to remain dignified, just to get more lies on national TV? I hope he was hauled out of the chamber by security.

[smarriveurr]

Frankly, I'd like to see him gagged. Physically. Whenever he's in public.

Plus, of course, now the top story is not about the health care plan. It's about the outburst, the reaction to the outburst, the apology, how Democrats should be happy the President gets to accept the apology and be the dignified one, and, my favorite of all, how focused the media are on the outburst. I love when news organizations point out that they have the attention span of gnats and refuse to focus on the shit that matters.

[laurensa]

And yet another crude, ill-manner, boorish idiot shows his true colors.

[smarriveurr]

And the best part is, hopefully he'll pay for it. He did manage to raise over a hundred thousand dollars for his opponent in well less than a day, after all.

I don't know whether any amount of campaign contribution can actually unseat the guy, but here's hoping.

[paperkingdoms]

I don't know if he can be unseated by the other side, but I do wonder if it's too late for him to be challenged by someone else of his own party.

Either way, I hope it makes him sweat a bit.

[smarriveurr]

I don't know. If he has a strong base, he's actually golden - maybe even better off. Already Rush Limbaugh is making a hero out of the asshole.

[faerieboots]

I am somewhat ashamed to admit that after the "some dude bit off another dude's finger at a town hall meeting" incident, absolutely nothing in this circus surprises me anymore. Joseph Wilson heckles the President in the middle of his address, and I'm pretty much just like, "...yup, somebody was going to do it."

[smarriveurr]

I hadn't heard about the biting incident. Just... wow.

It would have been one thing if the Republicans as a whole had booed or something. I know Bush was booed in his State of the Unions, and I remember when the Democrats cut him off giving themselves a standing ovation as he tried to warn about the dire effects of Congress preventing him from privatizing social security.

On the other hand, from what herself tells me, Rob Miller had about a hundred grand in total donations from that ActBlue Website this morning. Now it's over half a million. I really hope Joe the Shouter's war chest is looking slim right now.