So yesterday the House voted to admonish Rep. Joe Wilson for his "you lie" outburst during Obama's joint session of Congress. The votes pretty much went down party lines. To the best of my knowledge, it was the first time that a Congressman has been reprimanded like this by the House. Maybe be will ask Jamie Dupree about that. Speaking of Jamie Dupree ... Yesterday during the Information Overload hour, he asked me whether or not I would vote to reprimand Joe Wilson and I said that I would. I would like to see a return of some degree of civility to the Congress .. and that means you spank the hand of those that you may agree with as well as those with whom you disagree.

Now ... a few questions. What about Barney Frank? Which do you think is worse, an outburst on the floor when you're confronted with a president who plays loose with the truth? Or having your male lover run a homosexual prostitution business out of your home in Washington? And then there's Charles Rangel. This guy is running the committee that writes tax laws, yet he is a serial tax cheat. Does that measure up to a serious breach of ethics or not? The House ethics committee can't seem to even so much as scowl at Rangel.

We know the vote was purely partisan. That doesn't mean that Joe Wilson didn't deserve the rebuke.

Meanwhile, it's not like this is the first time we have heard such language on the floor of the House. Take this little tirade from Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark. Do you think that would qualify as a "serious breach of decorum"? Just curious.

And while we are at it ... let's take a look at exactly what is proper and improper, according to our own federal government. House Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter took the time to remind lawmakers about the proper etiquette for conduct on the floor and in committees. From Politico:

Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:

• refer to the government as "something hated, something oppressive."
• refer to the President as "using legislative or judicial pork."
• refer to a Presidential message as a "disgrace to the country."
• refer to unnamed officials as "our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs."

Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:

• call the President a "liar."
• call the President a "hypocrite."
• describe the President's veto of a bill as "cowardly."
• charge that the President has been "intellectually dishonest."
• refer to the President as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."
• refer to alleged "sexual misconduct on the President's part."

Looking at that list it is clear that there are quite a few Democrats who should be facing the same condemnations that Joe Wilson faced today. We all know that isn't going to happen.

It's all just a bit tiring, isn't it?

When Jimmy Carter isn't busy looking for a new despotic dictator to sleep with he occupies himself with looking for alternate ways to look foolish. Yesterday he did what everyone who knows him expected him to do .. he weighed in on Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie" outburst during PrezBO's speech to congress last week. And - to the surprise of absolutely nobody - Carter has opined that Wilson's behavior was rooted in racism.

If you don't live in Atlanta you would really have no way of knowing that we view Carter as a highly visible crazy uncle who wanders around muttering to himself most of the time. We're glad you got to share in our pain on this one.

Kanye just interrupted the Swayze funeral to remind them Michael Jackson had the greatest funeral of all time.

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Do you folks remember Cynthia McKinney? Yeah .. the cutest little communist in Congress. Well, I have good news for you. Her seat in Congress is being occupied by someone who is every bit as nutty as she was. Just not as cute. His name is Hank Johnson. Johnson wants to be on the list with Jimmy Carter of people who blame Joe Wilson's comment on racism. Here's is the asinine comment from Rep. Hank Johnson.

Yup .. there you go. Hank Johnson says that people are going to start wearing white hoods if the House of Representatives doesn't rebuke Joe Wilson for his outburst.

Don't you folks fret none about the people who live in Johnson's district. Remember .. Cynthia McKinney. They're used to being represented in Congress by race pimps and fools. They've perfected the practice of going to congressmen in neighboring districts for constituent services while their congressman parades around all day in clown makeup.

And just who didn't see all of this coming? Come on, folks! Having you been paying attention for the past 30 years? In virtually every state and community in this nation liberals have been blaming racism for any failure, miscalculation, controversy or outright act of corruption by black elected officials. There has been a standard operating methodology in place for all of the 40 years I've been doing talk radio:

1. Black citizen elected to office.
2. Black official runs into opposition to policy objectives or has a problem with corruption.
3. Black supporters and liberals blame the problems on race.

One-two-three. This scenario has been played out so many times in modern American history it would have been impossible to keep count. Now a black man has become president. Some fools thought that this would help our country move beyond racial division. Well --- perhaps it would have, if only evil white people had been smart enough not to object to anything this man might propose. But it didn't work out that way, so now the left and the media are finding racists under every bed, behind every utility pole and on every street in America. Newsweek Magazine even ran a totally absurd story about racism in babies ... putting a picture of a white infant on the cover with the title "Is your baby racist?" Read that story and you'll find that the authors think that it would be horrifying if a white child were to ever express pride in being white.

Last year, before the election, some of us predicted that if (or when) Barack Obama became president that this would happen. We said that every time his policies met with opposition the left would start screaming racism. So what happened when we said that this would happen? Well ... you guessed it. We were called racists. You just can't imagine how surprised and shocked we were.

So .. here is what Jimmy Carter, Bill Moyers, Hank Johnson, much of the Washington and New York press corps, Newsweek Magazine and the brilliant thinkers on the American left would have you believe of Americans right now:

• We would be more than willing to welcome cap-and-trade with open arms, even if we paid a thousand dollars or more extra every year for our energy use, if Barack Obama were only white.
• We would be dancing in the streets celebrating the dawning of government control of our health care if only Barack Obama were white.
• It would be just dandy if government bureaucrats rationed health care for our parents, as long as the president is white.
• We would jump at the chance of the government owning ALL of the auto manufacturing companies .. not just General Motors ... if the president just didn't have dark skin.
• We would applaud those ACORN workers giving tax avoidance advice to a pimp and his prostitute if the workers hadn't been black.
• Most Americans - even ones that don't pay income taxes now - would be more than willing to give 70% of everything they earn to the federal government when asked ... so long as they are asked by a white president.
• We would have been thrilled, I tell you ... THRILLED to have all of those Islamic goons being held at Guantanamo be not only released, but sent to be school resource officers at our local government schools, if only a white president put that plan in motion.
• It would be OK if a white president stood back and allowed Iran to build its coveted nukes ... we're only unhappy about that because a black president is doing it.
• Deficits? We don't care about deficits! Make our children and grand children and great grand children pay through the nose for our president's spending habits ... just so long as the president isn't black.
• Government pork? Like we actually care? Look ... you folks in Washington can spend all the money you want - how about more studies of the mating habits of Polish Zlotnika pigs? - just make sure it's not a black president who signs the spending bill into law.
• We wouldn't care if all illegal aliens were counted twice in the next Census ... just so long as the president isn't black.
• Those Black Panther thugs who threatened voters in Philly? The ONLY reason we're upset that they were given a pass is because Barack Obama is black.
• Every single member of the president's cabinet could be a tax cheat as far as we're concerned ... just so long as the president is white.
• Forced unionization? Bring it on! We love card check! We love the idea of union goons threatening and intimidating workers to sign a card saying they want to belong to a union! What we don't like is that a black president is pushing this idea.
• Single-party talks with that Gargoyle that runs North Korea? It's about time we legitimized that little pipsqueak. We're only mildly upset here because the person who is doing that happens to be black.
• More regulation of the finance sector? We could care less! For all we care you can nationalize the banks and decree that only the government can make home loans .. .and you can even apportion those home loans on the basis of race if you want to ... just so long as the president is white!
• Minimum wage? Like we care about that? Raise it to $15 an hour if you want! Just give us our white president back.

Yeah .. the moonbat left really has us figured out, don't they?

Clearly we know of the recent scandals involving ACORN ... unless you have been living under a rock. Or you are Charlie Gibson. But at any rate, it turns out that after all the fuss and calls for ACORN to sue FOX News ... ACORN can't legally operate in the state of Maryland. Here's the deal:

According to the following documents, ACORN, Inc. - the parent organization of all things ACORN - forfeited its corporate charter in Maryland in 2006. ACORN Housing forfeited its corporate charter in 2008. Any ACORN office in the state of Maryland is potentially operating illegally.

This leads me to the latest Republican endeavor ... defunding ACORN. House Republicans have introduced the Defund ACORN Act to make sure that ACORN does not receive one more penny from the taxpayers.

This, as we've already pointed out, is most certainly based on racism.

If the Democrats treat this the same way they have treated Republicans proposals, bills and amendments on healthcare ... it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

With the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there has been a lot of talk about the current state of our financial system one year later. With Obama's talks on Wall Street, and Barney Frank still banging the drum for more regulation ... let us not forget two extremely important entities that got this bull rolling: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

In fact, here is a little factoid that the mainstream media will probably not tell you. A report from the Government Accountability Office says that "privatizing the government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could mitigate the systemic economic risk caused by the federal government's guarantees to the now-defunct mortgage giants, but that the benefits of privatization could be reversed by government efforts to insure private-sector mortgages."

Oh no! Not privatize! Where's the government? How is the government to save people? How is the government going to make people more dependent if we privatize?

OK .. you gotta see this one. A Cleveland TV station is following reports of a black bear in local neighborhoods ... but they can't find a bear to video. Soooo.......

Here's a short video to get your day started ... how many "requirements" do the Democrats have in their healthcare bill?

From John Fund at The Wall Street Journal: ACORN off the rails. This, of course, is only because of white racists.

Well .. here it is. Audio of Obama calling Kanye West a "jackass."

Arlen Specter has made it official. He will support the union card check bill. What a shocker!

Hugo Chavez in an arms race? This doesn't promise to be good for the US.

The Democrats are coming to find that maybe they can't meet all of President Obama's demands on healthcare reform.

The Obama administration supports extending three key provisions of the Patriot Act that are due to expire at the end of the year.

Thomas Sowell compares being told fairytales as a child to Barack Obama's fables for adults.

According to Rasmussen, one year after the collapse of global financial firm Lehman Brothers, most voters (56%) continue to blame the nation's current economic problems on George Bush. Barney and Charlie skate free again.

Well ... there is definitely one sector of the economy that is growing ... this is good news for liberals who are so in love with government.

If the president really wanted to scare Wall Street to change its evil ways, he would have made one simple declarative statement: There will be no more bailouts.

Americans are really becoming more and more skeptical of mainstream media in this country.

Maybe this is why ... almost a week after the ACORN video broke, ABC News' Charlie Gibson knows nothing about the story.

Another day goes by, and Obama does more pandering to the unions.

The Great One (Mark Levin) has sold over 1 million copies of his book. Not a single review by the New York Times or Washington Post. Another surprise!

Who do you believe are the most corrupt members of Congress? Here is what the watchdog groups have to say. But don't worry, I'm sure that YOUR representative is great ... it is just all the others that are scoundrels.

Studies show that women lawmakers outperform men. Is anybody shocked by this?

The other day I told you who I believed would be the first female to be invited to join Augusta. Looks like she is well on her way.

A DRT story involving a samurai sword. Don't see that one every day.