Rep. Joe Wilson: Oh ... My ... Gawd!!

No! Please tell me it isn't true?? LMAO Oh man, is this all they've got? And the Hill runs with it? Somebody needs to wake someone up with a good slap at The Hill these days. Or, maybe they could use some NoDoz so they'll stop dreaming about Obama. It's gotten absolutely pathetic.

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), who shouted "you lie!" at President Obama during his Wednesday night address to Congress, admitted to regularly consuming caffeine pills in 2007.

It is unknown if Wilson still takes NoDoz, a brand of pill that contains 200 milligrams of caffeine a pop. By comparison, a seven ounce cup of drip coffee contains 115 to 175 milligrams of caffeine.

Comments

[Adjoran]

See, it's like this: if you're a Democrat, you can use your congressional staff for personal servants (Conyer), influence the bonuses and budget of your live-in lover after your former live-in ran a prostitution ring out of your apartment (Frank), get rich by "investing" with the companies for which you obtained earmarks (Mulhollan), enrich your cronies and relatives (Murtha), get sweetheart land deals (Dodd, Obama), and hide income and assets for decades (Rangel), and the worst that might happen is you get elected chairman of a committee (as long as you don't get videotaped actually taking the cash from the FBI like William Jefferson - Murtha told them he'd send an aide for it and was allowed to walk in exchange for ratting out his friends). No biggie.

If you're a Republican, taking legal over-the-counter medications is a huge scandal.

Now do you see the difference?

[rezkoboughtalot]

Don't forget about ACORN facilitating child prostitution.

[Lala]

Don't forget that you can leave a young woman to die in a submerged car and then get away with it by saying it was all a terrible mistake on your part.

[runninrebel]

It's been three hours since the groundbreaking story about Wilson's caffeine use was posted. Does it always take that long to post comments?

I just think they are wasting a huge comedic opportunity over at The Hill. Sure, it would be at their expense, but still.

[Steven Den Beste]

That article is really an embarassment. I really do wonder what they were thinking when they posted it.

[Ad rem]

Come on folks....everyone knows that caffeine is a "gateway" drug.

[ic]

If that is the only thing they have, Wilson must be a super clean politician. I'm impressed.

[Daniel]

Look, all this means is that, in effect Democrats think of Republicans as superior beings who should be held to higher standards than they themselves; sort of like their parents.
In their adolescent way the dems are convinced that their wonderful good intentions more than make up for their ugly personal behavior. In other words that they want the government to take from others to give to the poor is enough to make them holy and to give them indulgence for any sins, past present and future.

[Peach]

--Look, all this means is that, in effect Democrats think of Republicans as superior beings who should be held to higher standards than they themselves; sort of like their parents. --

Hah. That actually makes sense. Even Democrats expect more out of Republicans than they themselves are capable.

[N lewis]

You go, Joe Wilson!!!

[malclave]

I usually drink a couple of Diet Cokes and/or Diet Pepsis each day. Should I be concerned that this fact may come back to haunt me, should I run for office?

[geoffb]

7oz.? Who drinks 7oz. of coffee? Standard mugs are 12 to 16. By their figures I take between 1000 and 1500 mg every morning in the preferred liquid form. 7oz. shheeessshhh.

[Xerocky]

Sometimes when I drink too much tea in the morning, I'm known to say things out loud that perhaps I should have kept inside. But regardless, I'm glad he did what he did.

[Mwalimu Daudi]

It is a sign of the political myopia at The Hill that its editors actually think this will help Obama and the Democrats.

What's next - a breathless series of articles about widespread use of candy bars and chewing gum among House GOP members? College football watching and NASCAR racing viewing among GOP voters? Senate Republican staffers consuming aspirin and using Kleenex tissues behind closed doors? The mind boggles!

[mgb]

Wait wait wait

I have it on good authority that Joe Wilson left his room messy once:)

[Lala]

I buy those "pocket coffee" candies, espresso coffee surrounded by delicious chocolate. Then I eat the whole box of them in 1 day.

[Jeffersonian]

I hear Jerrold Nadler downs an entire bull moose before each day's session.

[x11b1p]

lets see- caffine makes you call somene a liar so i guess snorting coke makes you lie? That explains Obama proclivity for fairy tales and myth when it comes to telling the truth.

[Dan Riehl]

Well, I use a heack of a lot of caffeine. But I don't need any to call Obama a liar or my liberal comments butt munchers. Maybe I'm just addicted to THAT?

[Ad rem]

Hmmmmmmmmmm.........

Energizing caffeine + crispy "butt munchers".......

I see the opportunity for a tasty new snack food!

[Mark Turner]

Didn't Obama admit to Cocaine use in his book?

[Paul]

South Carolina has a long list of dignitaries that includes Lauren Caitlin Upton (Miss Teen USA 2007 pageant contestant), Board of Education Chair, Kristin Maguire, Governor (and avid Appalachian hiker), Mark Sanford and now Joe “the hater not a debater” Wilson or the “screamer not the dreamer” as others have dubbed him. I did enjoy him cut and running through his apology, which only goes to show that he stands for nothing. He is just another good old boy where in the morning these married men preach to you that there should be prayer in our schools and in the evening they are on their cell phones setting up a date with their other women on the side, hypocrisy has been bred in. I am not surprised that he felt compel to yell like he was at some Friday night game. So long Joey, you too will be seeing the unemployment lines.

[Hive Mind]

Joe Wilson for President!

[Gonzales]

As I was drinking my second coffee of the morning, my wife told me she was going out for a run. I immediately screamed "LIAR!" and threw my coffee mug at her.

The Hill may be on to something here, a problem bigger than Avian Flu ever was.

[Ince]

So Joe had coffee instead of taking his regular pills before the speech?

[Mars vs Hollywood]

Hey, Obama should be glad Wilson didn't throw his shoes at him.

[Reaganite Republican]

95% of Americans are hooked on caffeine, idiots

I heard Wilson parked at a broken meter in 1973 without reporting it to authorities, why don't they follow that up?

Is Organizing for America paying for this stuff? Publishing such a non-story of Alinskyite slander on those who dare expose and embarrass the Dear Leader makes you wonder... and in the bad economy, and all. Happens in the financial press all the time, short sellers pay them to trash a company or product.

[Chester White]

Or if you are a Democratic president, you can blow semen all over a 21-year old subordinate, in your place of work, lie about it in federal court, and get hailed as the greatest president who ever lived.

[SDN]

malclave, they just disqualified the ENTIRE computer business from public office. I put down 8-12 cans of diet Mountain Dew a day and I'm not unique.....

[Conservative cobra]

The silly story of the day, indeed, from the Hill.

I doubt anyone finds this more meaningful than hearing that someone drinks several cups of coffee a day.

Steve M. of No More Mister Nice Blog notes that it was written by a conservative and has a theory:

"So why did he write this story? Is it a false flag operation — a clumsy attempt by an ideological soul mate to change the subject from Wilson’s outburst and to make Wilson appear to be the victim of journalistic malpractice, which can then be blamed on liberals?"

http://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2009/09/did-right-wingers-plant-ridiculous-joe.html

If so, Dan Riehl, along with other conservative bloggers, is falling for it (or playing along). Allahpundit of Hot Air writes, “We’ve reached a very, very dark point.”:

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/09/10/joe-wilson-i-need-your-donations-to-defend-myself-from-liberal-attacks/

[Wilkeson]

Hey, this is serious business, caffeine pills almost ruined the life of Jessie Spano.

(20-somethings will get that; "I'm so excited, I'm so... scared!").

[Trouble]

Word about DC is that Joe Wilson doesn't finish his vegetables, either.

Bush 41 set the precedent for that, though ("I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!").

[Kate]

@Conservative cobra

Interesting...

"If so, Dan Riehl, along with other conservative bloggers, is falling for it (or playing along)."

So what is it, Dan? Care to clarify?

Oh, never mind. You can have your belly full of laughs and join Eric Erickson of RedState.com for an excuse to call the President a cokehead.

[james a]

Mr. Wilson was apparently overcome with emotion at the time. He has actually been listening to his constituents and taking their message to heart. Its called being passionate. He simply was overcome with frustration. LMAO, Caffeine is not illegal and its not even worth mentioning. (I'm getting ready to pour my 2nd cup of coffee!) It's just the only thing that opponents could dig up on this guy. We need more guys like Joe Wilson. I wish he was from my state! However inappropriate his outburst may have been, I'm sure he realizes it and I'm sure it wasn't premeditated.

[SDN]

Well, Kate, Republicans may be slow to anger, but over the last 8 years we've figured it out: Democrats are "no longer our countrymen" to quote Sam Adams. And since all's fair in love and war....

[Paul]

Some call Joe Wilson a great statesman, and are even proud of his “Shout Out”, so lets see, he says, he was told by the Republican leadership to apologize (he did not realize the magnitude of his mistake), he then gives his weak “not for reals” apology, but then goes on to those “Commentator Talk Shows” and basically says he real was not wrong and plays the victim card and calls for people to send in for money to support him for re-election. Had he kept quiet after his apology, that might have been the end of it but now that people know he lied about the apology the story will continue, until he is out of a job and the funny thing is, he does not see it coming. This summer has been rough for his beleaguered political party. At least he did not end up on the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC). In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. The bithers, the teabaggers, the screamers, and the deathers continued extreme minority presence will become tiresome to mainstream America, if it has not already done so.