Sometimes I just shake my head and wonder what kind of country this is.

Our last President disregarded our intelligence agencies allowing 9/11 to happen, invaded no less than two countries, told us to fear weapons of mass destruction, flaunted the bill of rights and the Constitution, imprisoned and tortured people, (including many that were proven innocent)...

All that mayhem and yet when he spoke to the nation and Congress, politicians let him speak. Even when we believed he was lying, and some probably knew he was lying, we let him speak.

He was the president. The office of the Presidency deserves our respect even if we detest the man...

Then we have last night. While the current President was giving a speech on health insurance, one of our finest leaders shouted out, calling the President a liar.

After all we have been through, what topic was so extreme that it moved Rep. Wilson to this disrespectful outburst? The issues with President Bush were life and death, literally, and we kept our peace. The topic last night?

Insurance. Illegal immigrants.

I had to stop and think about all this. We don't have have the House of Lords. Calling the President a liar is something significant here.

But I cannot make up my mind.

Should I be more angry that Democrats were unwilling to speak out against the voice of tyranny when Bush was making life and death decisions that would affect millions of human beings?

Or should I be upset with Wilson. After being silent for serious issues, here comes this idiot shouting about insurance and the men and women that pick our food and butcher the meat we eat in hamburgers.

I guess I am upset about both.

I cannot change the past nor can I seem to understand what makes some Republican minds do what they do.

• Does Wilson disrespect the office of the President?
• Does he disrespect a black man as president?
• Is he in a panic about the Republican party's lack of reason or values?
• Or maybe he really is just that passionate about insurance?

I think Wilson should be censured but I dont expect that to happen.

What I do expect is our problems to get worse and the level of hysteria and irrational behavior to increase.

With the birth certificate issue and some of these bills, we have already seen politicians and some media outlets perpetuate known falsehoods as if they were true. And this past week I heard another fine member of Congress state: "Only God can change the climate, not Al Gore."

It is like the US is dividing into the actual country and some parallel universe of denial. I guess the Colbert Report wont run out of jokes any time soon.