Rep. Joe Wilson is using his misinformed accusation that President Obama's health care plan will provide health care for illegal immigrants. PolitiFact.com rated Wilson's, "You lie!" accusation as false.
Most illegal immigrants are also now excluded from Medicaid, the government-run health care for the poor. We didn't see anything that would change that.
One place where the bill does mention immigration status is for "affordability credits." These are tax credits for people of modest means need to buy health insurance. The credits would help them buy insurance on a national health insurance exchange. The bill specifically says that people in the United States illegally are not eligible for tax credits, on page 132, section 242.
There is nothing in the current bills that specifically states illegal immigrants not being allowed to buy private or public insurance. That is assuming a migrant worker, without the money to live here legally, would financially be able to buy health coverage. That is assuming a lot. The tea bag element of the Republican Party is treating Wilson as the savior. Attacks are more important than facts.
Congressional candidate Rob Miller has raised $450,000 since last night. Litbrit has started an ActBlue page for Miller. Knowing Litbrit, she finds it offensive that Wilson's is using his uncivility to pimp for dollars.
Update: a White House official told Fox News illegal immigrants would be prohibited from getting health coverage though the insurance exchanges.
South Carolina has a long list of dignitaries that includes Lauren Caitlin Upton (Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant contestant), Board of Education Chair, Kristin Maguire, Governor (and avid Appalachian hiker), Mark Sanford and now Joe “the hater not a debater” Wilson or the “screamer not the dreamer” as others have dubbed him. I did enjoy him cut and running through his apology, which only goes to show that he stands for nothing. He is just another good old boy where in the morning these married men preach to you that there should be prayer in our schools and in the evening they are on their cell phones setting up a date with their other women on the side, hypocrisy has been bred in. I am not surprised that he felt compel to yell like he was at some Friday night game. So long Joey, you too will be seeing the unemployment lines.
ReplyDeleteThere is definately something in the water in South Carolina. Pat Conroy writes, in his books, about how backwards thinking S.C. is.
ReplyDeleteSome call Joe Wilson a great statesman, and are even proud of his “Shout Out”, so lets see, he says, he was told by the Republican leadership to apologize (he did not realize the magnitude of his mistake), he then gives his weak “not for reals” apology, but then goes on to those “Commentator Talk Shows” and basically says he real was not wrong and plays the victim card and calls for people to send in for money to support him for re-election. Had he kept quiet after his apology, that might have been the end of it but now that people know he lied about the apology the story will continue, until he is out of a job and the funny thing is, he does not see it coming. This summer has been rough for his beleaguered political party. At least he did not end up on the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC). In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. The birthers, the teabaggers, the screamers, and the deathers continued extreme minority presence will become tiresome to mainstream America, if it has not already done so.
ReplyDeleteI don't find the Religious Right to be very religious. THey worship conservative power and think nothing of the needy.
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