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Oct 5th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Rep. Wilson: Criticizing Bush is Unpatriotic

Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), challenged to provide evidence that Barack Obama is unpatriotic, offered that fact that “He’s been critical not only of the President but of American policy and hence has kind of a negative view of America in the world.”

As Amanda Terkel observes, “The Bush administration has been setting American policy for the past eight years. Therefore, any criticism of the Bush administration, according to Wilson, is unpatriotic.” On the other hand, if Wilson wants to define the GOP as the party of slavish adherence to Bush’s policies, well, that’s exactly how the Democrats have been trying to define it.

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25 Responses to “Rep. Wilson: Criticizing Bush is Unpatriotic”

lampwick Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I think the mule in Wilson’s brain just died.
Kali Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
So…the over 80 percent of Americans are unpatriotic?

She’s right folks! Let’s join the valiant, elite, the unquestioning, unblinking 20 percent head-in-sand contingent of REAL Americans!

Oh crap-oh crap! I said elite! How do I do strikethrough?
Kali Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Sorry lampwick, it was an elephant that died. That ought to get whiffy pretty fast.
eric k Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
So I guess by Wilson’s standard tha majporty of the GOP was unpatriotic from ‘92 – 2000.

Also good to knwo their new standards, I’m sure they’ll live up to it during the upcoming Obama administration:-)
Adam Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
I’d just like to take this opportunity to point and laugh at Heather Wilson who, along with both of New Mexico’s other Republican representatives, gave up her seat to try to be the one to get blown out by Udall. Well played Heather!
Freedom Fry Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
What a moron. Is there anyone challenging her seat? I might just send a donation their way.
Trevor Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
When even someone like that Carolina congressman who tried to change the name of *french fries to “freedom fries saw the light – you’d think that unpatriotic scum like this dopey broad would disappear. But, Nooo. Get her on a boat and ship her the fuck out of here. It also doesn’t help that a namby-pamby tic like Bob Scieffer is still on the scene.
Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Freedom Fry:
I believe her challenger is Martin(or is it Marty) Chavez. Sadly, he’s a DLC Democrat.
Craig Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
The clear differences between Wilson and Palin are age, accent, and structurally accurate sentences. The similarity is that Wilson too makes absolutely no sense.
Matt Weiner Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
As Adam pointed out, Wilson is on her way out; all three New Mexico Representatives gave up their seats to run for Domenici’s Senate Seat. Wilson lost to Steve Pearce in the GOP primary, and Pearce is going to get destroyed by a Udall in the general. The Dem running for her seat is Martin Heinrich. (Chavez started to run for the Senate, but withdrew before the primary.)

Wilson could also see trouble in the U.S. Attorney firing scandal, so with luck her public career will be over completely.
croatoan Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

– Teddy Roosevelt
Hubie Stubert Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
It’s rhetoric like this that is unpatriotic.

America is a nation that was founded on the idea that dissent is just tolerable, it’s essential for a healthy debate and society. And it is shameful that a Representative would hold such an opinion–tolerable, but I still hold her in complete contempt for having no sense of history, no sense of the principles that this nation was founded upon.

Freedom is the right to piss other people off. It’s the freedom to hold an unpopular opinion. It’s the freedom to worship different than your neighbors. It’s the freedom to hold our own leaders in contempt, and even advocate their removal from office for their behavior, their actions, their words. In fact, each time we vote, we differ from a fair number of our neighbors, and a fair number of seated officials. Are we next to think that running against a seated official is somehow unpatriotic?

Airheads like this, who haven’t swallowed a gottverdammit Civics course their entire lives, who hold the principles for which the nation was founded in contempt, they are the ones who are unpatriotic, and shame us and their constituents each time they open their mealy cake holes.

Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, and we’ve heard her particular drum beat already, a few times, in the last century, and it doesn’t end well…
Phoebe Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Heather Wilson is “the problem”!
She was involved in what might be the most egregious AG firing:

http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100005738&docId=l:859796697&start=6

“Among the most closely watched of the cases is one involving former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, who says he received troubling phone calls from GOP Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson (R) about the status of a criminal corruption probe against a prominent local Democrat shortly before the 2006 elections. In April, the Senate Ethics Committee admonished Domenici, who is retiring, because he should have known the call would create “an appearance of impropriety.” ”

These. People. Suck.
Turnaround Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 3:39 am
She is right. We need to talk about the good things we do.

Like throwing the entire corrupt Republican Party under the bus on November 4.
MGalleher Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Ahh Yes, that noted statesman Heather Wilson. Given the DOJ IG’s report about her role in the firing of US Attorney David Iglesias, shouldn’t she be staring down the barrel of an obstruction of justice indictment right about now?

Call me old fashioned, but I think trying to subvert the rule of law and use criminal law for partisan purposes is a hell of a lot more unpatriotic than exercising your Constitutional right to criticize the president
me Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Heather Wilson has for years claimed the “homestead deduction” on her Hill rowhouse, which requires that DC be her primary residence. Of course, Article I requires her to be a resident of New Mexico (or at least did on every election day when she won/re-won her House seat), which seems more than a little inconsistent. Our Lady of Mascara Katherine Harris had this same problem some years back until the voters wisely relieved her of public office.

If we can’t trust Heather Wilson not to cheat on her DC real property taxes, why should anybody trust what she says?
scarlet Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
I am in awe that Ms. Wilson condemns any american as being unpatriotic in criticizing Bush!

Tell me Ms. Wilson, how do you defend this man to families who have lost loved ones in Mr. Bush’s Iraq Occupation?

Do you believe in all honesty that we Americans are to be silent no matter what the price of his horrible decisions?

Did you forget that we DO NOT work for him, but rather you are all paid by us to hear our voices.

And finally, if you & your Party are so proud of this man, why did McCain shun him at the GOP Convention?

Mr. Bush needs to be Accountable as does anyone in his Administration who sheepishly followed his lead into the deaths of thousands of lives for a self-centered vendetta.

It’s way past time that at least one of our candidates ‘tells it like it is’.

Shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!!
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