JOE WILSON HAS A FAN CLUB: Irrational Right Busses 1,500 Anti-Progressive Tea-Baggers Into Hartford, Ct. To Show Support For Liar Who called Obama a Liar.

JOE WILSON HAS A FAN CLUB: Irrational Right Busses 1,500 Anti-Progressive Tea-Baggers Into Hartford, Ct. To Show Support For Liar Who called Obama a Liar.

He couldn’t control his mouth when it came to dishonest partisan name-calling, but an estimated 1,500 Tea Party Patriots gathered outside the state Capitol for a rally that featured speeches against the health care plan and in favor of freedom, as reported in the Sept 12th edition of the Hartford Courant.

By now, everybody and his brother knows that US Representative Joe WilsonJoe Wilson shouted "You lie!" at President Barack ObamaBarack Obama during a nationally televised speech to Congress on reforming the American health care system. The South Carolina Republican soon apologized, but his name became known instantly around the country.

Yet, as has been reported elsewhere on AllVoices.com by farhat96, the website, Politifact (politifact.com), a nonpartisan site dedicated to fact-checking the claims of "candidates, elected officials, political parties, interest groups, pundits, talk show hosts," Obama wasn't lying when he said the health-care reforms he's proposing would not apply to illegal immigrants.

To quote from the site’s conclusion, "Obama can make a pretty thorough case that reform doesn't apply to those here illegally. We don't find the public option argument enough to make the case that Obama 'laid.' We rate Wilson's statement False."

In other words, Joe Wilson was lying when he yelled out in the Senate chambers that Mr. Obama was lying.

So, what else is new for the Republican Party?

According to the Rupert Murdock owned newspaper, Mr. Williams did not get to finish his sentence as the applause from the hyperventilating lemmings drowned him out.

Standing on the steps of the state capitol, Mark Williams, a national tea party organizer, faced a crowd that was so enthusiastic that, when he said, "Joe Wilson, the congressman who stood up," he was cut off in mid-sentence by the roars from the barely-contained mob.

"Aside from the inappropriateness of the venue, he was dead-on right," said Williams, minimizing the unprecedented outburst of Wilson as he spoke. As was noted above, Mr. Wilson was dead-on wrong, but facts have rarely stopped politicians, televangelists, used car salesmen, or other morally-dead demagogues from running on at the mouth.

And let’s not overlook how Mr. Williams himself is raising his own national profile through interviews on Fox, CNN, and other billionaire controlled outlets.

Williams was just one of several speakers that rainy Friday afternoon, as the national tour of the Tea Party Express made its stop in Hartford. The tour began in Sacramento, Calif., and was headed to Washington, DC, for another rally the next day.

The Rat Pack Motorcycle Club of Waterbury, whose members stood behind the speakers toward the end of the rally under the north portico of the state Capitol, escorted the group along the way, a procession not unlike the brown shirts who stood behind Benito Mussolini whenever he gave a speech in the main plaza in 1930s Rome.

For more than two hours, and at times in driving rain, the self styled tea-baggers stood outside to hear the speeches about state and local politics .

(Editor’s note: Apparently, the group is either oblivious of the popular definition of the term ‘tea-baggers’ or ignore it altogether … in the interest of full disclosure for readers who are not familiar with the phrase, please refer to the episode of ‘Sex In the City’ wherein the bride in a newly-wed couple uses the term when she is upset to find that her husband is in the habit of sitting on their expensive furniture naked – think about it)

Joseph Markley, a former Connecticut state senator and longtime Republican conservative, rather uselessly and irrelevantly told the crowd (composed almost entirely of non-residents) that all five Democratic members of the US House of Representatives from Connecticut need to be defeated in 2010. And thus the Courant dutifully reported the blatantly partisan statement like the faithful lap-dog of the brutish foreign-born Murdock that it is.

Continuing to twist the hate-Obama rally that the tea-baggers came from many state to participate in, Markley proclaimed loudly, "Above all, above everyone in America, we've got the number one man in America that has to be retired — right here in Connecticut, -- you know who I'm talking about? ... If we can't get rid of Chris DoddChris Dodd next year, we don't deserve to be in America anymore."

And, what a REALLY good reason to vote for Mr. Dodd at the appropriate moment, to see Mr. Markley pack up his carpetbag and move to another country – not that this writer wishes his presence on any other nation, please believe.

After Mr. Markley ran out of hot air, former state senator, Milford Republican, and anti-tax crusader Tom Scott took his turn at misleading the easily deceived group. Scott is mainly remembered for failing to get elected governor against fellow-Republican John Rowland. That, and the fact that, in the 1994 race he ‘denounced’ the eventually-disgraced and imprisoned Rowland for not being rightwing enough.

Unfortunately for civilized people who happen to reside in the Nutmeg State, another rally organized by these tea-baggers will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept 13th, on Waterbury’s town green. Attaching himself firmly to the tea-baggers’ apron-strings (sorry for the mixed metaphor, grammar fans -- of course, if one is really tea-bagging, one CAN’T be wearing apron-strings), Markley will be leading a ‘Dump Dodd’ rally in Hartford on Oct. 18.

Not particularly impressed by such hyperbole, Sen. Dodd's campaign manager, Jay Howser, stated flatly that the tea-baggers have nothing to offer (well, considering what they’d be wearing –or not wearing, in this case—of course it’d be obvious to a duck that tea-baggers have nothing to offer).

Mr. Howser then referred to the crude and obnoxious tactics of the tea-baggers by adding, "The great thing about the far right wing, extreme group of tea-baggers who have entertained us throughout the summer is that their idea of free speech is akin to shouting down opposition, drowning out debate, and in Connecticut, encouraging Sen. Dodd to commit suicide with painkillers and alcohol, -- no responsible American, regardless of their political beliefs, thinks that this fringe element has anything valuable to offer to our country's discourse or debate."

If a poll of the tea-baggers were taken, would it surprise anyone to find that almost every one of their members were only recently members of the equally obstructionist ‘birthers movement’?

That, of course, was the group of willfully ignorant-of-American-history agitators who pretended that Mr. Obama’s place-of-birth was outside the country’s territorial boundaries, thus making him ineligible to hold the office of president.

And, like that earlier one-trick pony, the tea-baggers will almost certainly run out of steam before very much longer, taking their place in history as an odd little footnote that future generations will laugh at, when they think about the group at all.