These are general thoughts about recent events:

First off, RIP Patrick Swayze. He will be missed.

Second, Kanye West was rude to Taylor Swift. Get over it. They are entertainers.

Third, Joe Wilson does not need to apologize anymore. Today’s House vote to formally admonish Joe Wilson for his outburst was a complete waste of time. He already apologized to the president and now the Democrat-controlled House is demanding more blood. What more do they want, the Lewinsky treatment? What this shows is that the Democrats are more interested in crushing dissent than in actually representing the American people. Apparently, the tens of thousands of activists that descended on Washington D.C. to protest the actions of the current administration and the Congress this past 12th of September made little impression on the Democrat ruling party. Instead of focusing on the truly arduous and necessary task before them, scrapping the ObamaCare plan and coming up with a more practical alternative, the Democrats of the House of Representatives decided that slapping Joe Wilson’s hands for speaking out of turn during the president’s speech was more important. No wonder about 70% of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing.

What I found especially rich is that the spokeswoman for Democratic House Majority whip said, about the outburst, that “we’re not the British Parliament for a reason,” but apparently the Democrats want to be like the British “National Health Service” system. Of course, the “fun” part of this whole affair is the sheer hypocrisy of the Democrats because of their own disrespectful comments and interruptions of former president George W. Bush. During a speech by Bush on Social Security Democrats hollered at the president “making it appear for a moment that Mr. Bush was standing in the well at the British House of Commons.” Where were the admonishments? Where was the outrage from the Congress? Do we so easily forget the years of relentless abuse that Bush received from the Left for his whole eight years as president? Let’s get a grip, people. The Democrats are playing partisan politics and they are playing for keeps. The post-partisan era has yet to materialize. Joe Wilson should not have interrupted the president’s speech, but I understand why he did and in that moment that he breached protocol, he spoke for millions upon millions of Americans across the country who were yelling the same thing at their TV screens. It is now a rallying cry for conservatives. Next time you see a Democrat, thank them, because every single day the Democratic Party’s actions make it clear that they care only about playing politics and power.

-AG