Like a lot of right wingers, Dick Armey is playing that game of games for kindergartener kids and elementary school kids …. “(he or she) did it first.”
It’s nice to see that Armey has grown and matured so significantly over the years, but still has not allowed his inner child to escape without obstruction.
At the kickoff today to this weekend’s big anti-health care reform rallies in Washington, D.C., FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey defended Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), saying, “Cut Mr. Wilson a little slack.”
Armey said Obama started the liar talk when he said the idea of death panels is “a lie, plain and simple.”
“So what’s the rule here? President of the United of States can say you’re liars and somebody else cannot? Give poor old Joe Wilson a break here,” Armey said to reporters, according to the Washington Independent. “Now, again, I cut him no slack. He knows better, or he should. He got himself in trouble and he reflected badly on people who share his point of view. But don’t let Obama off the hook for saying the same thing.”
Despite cutting him “no slack” himself, Armey urged others to do so.
“Unless you’re willing to call the president out, cut Mr. Wilson a little slack,” he said according to TheHill.com.
There’s Armey whining that the president did it first.
Armey says he cuts Wilson no slack, but he says everyone else should cut him a little slack. (head scratching)
The death panel stuff is propaganda garbage designed to scare people and Armey knows it.
There is nothing wrong with calling someone out if you feel they’re being untruthful, but you need to be a civilized and respectful person who has respect for the presidency, the setting, his district, the state of South Carolina, our tradition, Congress and human beings. Sure, the far-right nuts will love him because of their hatred for this particular president. But, the setting was wrong and it showed a lack of self control, a lack of civility and a seething anger for this president that seems to be boiling inside of so many on the far right.
If the man is that lacking, with respect to self control, then he needs to examine himself closely.
And, NO, I do not think this anger is just policy driven.
