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Rob Miller For Congress, or, Why Not Yell At the President?

So now here we are in the morning after Obama's speech to Congress about how the healthcare has no death panels and the state doesn't pay for abortions or illegal immigrants, which was largely a good speech, though, I think, in Obama fashion went on a little bit long in the home stretch. Also I would really like some affordable health care for myself. And then there was what is being referred to as a "heckling," by one Joe Wilson of South Carolina, which I don't believe is really a heckle? A heckle would have been like, "you smell!" Or "your jokes are so bad, Howie Mandel!" Calling someone a liar while they are not lying is not heckling. So now Joe Wilson's Democrat opponent in the 2010 election-Rob Miller, a Marine for 13 years-had only raised $3000 on Act Blue as of 10:30 p.m., but as of this morning has been given more than $100,000. Unfortunately, most of us were too busy thinking about this "heckling" hilarity to listen to the bizarre official Republican response to the president by Charles Boustany of Louisiana. READ MORE