Thank you Joe Wilson

joewilsonAnyone who supports health care got a gift from the heavens when Joe Wilson lost his mind and called the President of the United States of America a liar to his face. So when the Republicans should be talking about health care, they’re talking about this, and the reason that I believe this is important is that it shows the Republicans to be frothing, crazy, out of touch fear mongers.

The President was brilliant tonight. He did what he needed to do, he took off the gloves, and he called these liars out. The Democrats need to fall in line and make this happen. The Republicans have been shown to be weirdos that don’t have our best interest in mind. All the talk from over the summer in those town hall meetings with those crazies is over. President Obama took the ball and now has the momentum on this issue. Waiting until now, after the end of the summer to respond was brilliant.

Now it’s time for the rest of us to make sure we let our representatives know we want this. We need to keep the momentum on this and make it happen.

I’m just saying: the Death Penalty

Does it bother anyone else that Texas, the state with the most executions since 1976 with 437 of them, also leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted? My major problem with the death penalty has always been the finality of it in a system rife with corruption, inaccuracies, and subjectivity. For the 38 people that Texas has let go based on DNA evidence exonerating them, this is good news. And Texas seems to be doing a good job by making sure that these people are properly compensated.

But it makes me wonder how many of the 437 that were executed, would have been exonerated.