Insomniactive

So now CNN reports that South Carolina Republican and self-appointed Hyena in Chief Joe Wilson has raised $200k in the wake of his calculated, embarrassing stunt . Unfortunately, the rest of the country seems to be a lot more embarrassed than Rep. Wilson:

“On these issues, I will not be muzzled, I will speak up and speak loudly against this risky plan,” Wilson said in a YouTube video released Thursday evening. “The supporters of the government takeover of health care and the liberals who want to give health care to illegals are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly conceived plan.”

The congressman disbursed the video via Twitter and asked his followers to “please watch and pass on.”

“[Democrats] want to silence anyone who speaks out against it,” Wilson also says in the video. “They made it clear they want to defeat me and pass the plan. I need your help now. … Contribute to my effort to defeat the proponents of government-run health care.”

As Politico reports this morning, South Carolina has a long history of rough-and-tumble politics, some of it (or most of it, depending on whom you believe) racially tinged. But honestly, surely any clear-eyed American can see that this behavior is not only cynical, but unpatriotic. Where are calls of formal censure from the Republican leadership? We haven’t heard a peep.

I don’t begrudge Rep. Wilson his convictions that the Obama health care plan is a sure road to hell, with shockingly healthy illegal aliens serving as shameful mile markers along the way. Whatever. But I’d like to ask him one question, which my grandmother would ask me when I really disappointed her:

“What if everybody behaved that way?”