Other People I Would Like To "Wilsonize"

Up front disclosure: I have never voted for a Republican for national office in my life.

As most of you already know, during the President's health care reform speech last week, Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted out that President Obama was a liar. It was an unheard of type of outburst from a member of Congress while any President was addressing both houses of Congress. Congressman Wilson apologized for his accusation and Obama accepted the apology. That should have been the end of the story: bad act, apology, apology accepted.

But no. Democrats decided to take up time and resources and issue a formal rebuke to Wilson since he refused to apologize on the floor of the House. Never mind that the target of his inappropriate outburst, the President, had already accepted the apology. Thus, if the current political class wants to waste more of our time, may I suggest that they rebuke some other people since they are at least as bad as Wilson's gaffe; in fact, let's invent a new verb, to Wilsonize which means "to take up valuable time to kill a dead horse because we do not know how to fix real national problems":

• Let's start with all of the Democrats that called Bush a Nazi, a fascist, or a liar, sometimes during his addresses to Congress, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
• Then let's Wilsonize Congressman Charles Rangel who every year seems to come under investigation for some sort of new tax evasion scheme including, but not limited to, not reporting rental income, not disclosing credit union accounts with hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting in them, etc.
• Let's not forget Senator Harry Reid who publicly commented that American tourists visiting DC in the summer time physically smelled, despite knowing that those smelly Americans pay his salary, benefits and office expenses.
• Moving on, let's Wilsonize Nancy Pelosi who believes that anyone speaking up against the Obama health care reform bills, i.e. exercising their First Amendment rights, is un-American.
• How could we forget Barney Frank who, as chairman of the House committee overseeing the banking industry for the past three years, failed miserably in that capacity to foresee the biggest banking crisis since the Great Depression until it hit him up the side of the head.
• If we are going to Wilsonize Frank, then we have to go over to his counterpart in the Senate, Chris Dodd, who as chairman of the Senate committee responsible for overseeing the banking industry for the past three years, failed miserably in that capacity to foresee the biggest banking crisis since the Great Depression until it hit him up the side of the head.
• In fact, let's Wilsonzie the entire Federal Reserve Board, Treasury Department, and SEC who also failed to foresee the biggest banking crisis since the Great Depression.
• Special Wilsonization should go to the seven Senators who voted NOT to defund the ACORN organization which has been caught on videotape in several cities helping a fake pimp and prostitute set up housing for a brothel using taxpayer funds and underage foreign girls.
• Let's not omit Jimmy Carter for his ridiculous opinions on racism relative to the Congressman Wilson situation since Carter was mostly irrelevant while he was in office and is certainly irrelevant today, more than thirty years later.
• More Wilsonization for the SEC who for almost twenty years did not see a huge pyramid scheme from Mr. Madoff despite many outsiders proving what was going on.

I think that is enough for today, this Wilsonization process could tie up Congress and the political class until the holidays. Other matters such as the failure of the war on drugs, failing public schools, Iraq, Afghanistan, skyrocketing national debt, unemployment, and other trivial matters can wait until we are done Wilsonizing everyone.