Rep. Charles Norwood (R-GA), 65, has died,
By on Feb 13th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Rep. Charles Norwood (R-GA), 65, has died,
his office tells NBC News. Norwood entered hospice care for metastatic lung cancer last week.
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One less Republican. Oh, well. God can sort THAT one out, too.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:14 pmComment by Liberal in New Mexico
Come on, not nice!
February 13th, 2007 at 2:20 pmOne less Republican. Oh, well. God can sort THAT one out, too.
Comment by Liberal in New Mexico
Really, that is a little beneath you, don’t you think.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pm#2- Oh, I twy-
February 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pmDamn, smoking’s a bitch, and that’s a TERRIBLE way to go.
Bless his poor family.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:23 pmMy sympathies to his family.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pmOddly enough, Charlie Norwood was a boyhood friend of mine, a big pal and neighbor, in fact. We used to chase snakes in the swamp near where we lived. I haven’t been in touch with him for 50 years, but I do know that he was one of many Republicans screwed by President George W. “W” Bush.
Charlie was a dentist and he was a strong proponent of a patient’s bill of rights. He and John Dingell put one together. First, the pundits just loved saying Dingell Norwood Bill with a smirk. But the worst thing that happened was that the President asked him to withdraw his bill of rights in favor of a presidential one. Charlie complied, and that’s the last we heard of any stinking patient bill of rights.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pmI don’t need someone else telling me that something is beneath me or that I’m too harsh with judging another. We all make our beds and have to live with our choices. I guess that he did. You will and, so will I.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:28 pmHe got what he voted for.
2005 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 12 percent in 2005.
2004 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 13 percent in 2004.
2004 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American College of Emergency Physicians 50 percent in 2004.
2003-2004 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the National Breast Cancer Coalition 67 percent in 2003-2004.
2003-2004 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine 25 percent in 2003-2004.
2003 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 11 percent in 2003.
2003 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the Global AIDS Alliance 0 percent in 2003.
2002 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 17 percent in 2002.
2001 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 0 percent in 2001.
2001 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Medical Association 0 percent in 2001.
2000 Representative Norwood supported the interests of the American Public Health Association 0 percent in 2000.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:28 pmThanks, #7.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:31 pmMy condolences to his family. He’s fine now.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:32 pmOne less 5 minute slot for the repubs in the “escalation” debate.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:36 pmOne less Republican. Oh, well. God can sort THAT one out, too.
Comment by Liberal in New Mexico
HATE…The “Progressive ™” Value
February 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pmDoes this mean we get another Republican in that slot, or do we get to pick a Dem? How does it work? Curious.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:51 pmNot a nice way to go, poor guy.
His party has long been a supporter of big tobacco. His party has long fought against health care reform. You reap what you sow. You reap what you sow.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:53 pmI don’t think it is morally or practically right to willingly crawl into the gutter just because that’s where the opposing political party members reside. Now, if we are dragged there directly, such as by the “embolden the enemies” rhetoric, then OK we should hit hard, often, and below the belt if necessary. But if we don’t like preemptive war as a national tactic, why should we engage in preemptive nastiness. Insulting a dead man who can do nothing more to harm our country is in poor taste.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:56 pmIgnoring his politics, Condolences to his family.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:09 pmOne Repugnican down, 59 million of the worthless bastards to go.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:45 pmMy best wishes to his family.
February 13th, 2007 at 3:49 pmCouldn’t have been one of their senators?!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pmAs Zooey said best: My best wishes to his family.
While I don’t support the Representatives positions, I extend my sorrow to his family and friends.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:03 pmOne more Repuke goes straight to Hell.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:11 pmI’m sure there were a lot of people at Norwood’s funeral–as was said at Harry Cohn and Louis B. Mayer’s funerals as well, “Well, it only proves what they always say–give the people what they want, and they’ll come out for it!” One less repugnant-repub out there–I may sound cruel, but that’s the way life is! Norwood was a rabid right-wing repugnant-repub who as a youth, killed his friend playing “quick draw”–he must have though he was “Quick-Draw McGraw”! That sobered his gunplay though he was a lifelong hunter like Torticola Cheney–stange how these repugnant-repubs and right-wing crackers love to shoot and KILL LIVING THINGS for sport and not only to survive by hunting for food! He had a lung transplant due to his service in Vietnam, one good thing he did for his country, in addition to filling the void in peoples’ teeth by his practice as a dentist–but he was a nasty repugnant-repub who loved to throw his weight and lord it over the house when the repugnant-repubs controlled the house, nastily shutting off debate and doing outrageous things like helping a constituent being a stuffed POLAR BEAR, an endangered species, FOR CHRISSAKES, through the customs…the polar bears and hunted species had their last laugh, as do I and other right-minded Americans, that Norwood is now in a new line of business–PUSHING UP DAISIES and WORM-FARMING!
February 13th, 2007 at 4:16 pmThe worms crawl in, The worms crawl out,
The worms play Pinochle on Norwood’s snout!
Condolences to the family. Smoking kills, no doubt about it.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:32 pmBlessings to his family and friends.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:48 pmNorwood, a Republican who won his seventh term in November with almost 70 percent of the vote…
he couldn’t have been too bad…
February 13th, 2007 at 5:10 pmso young… a bad way to go… same as my favorite uncle…
wouldn’t wish it on anyone…
I don’t need someone else telling me that something is beneath me or that I’m too harsh with judging another. We all make our beds and have to live with our choices. I guess that he did. You will and, so will I.
Comment by Liberal in New Mexico — February 13, 2007 @ 2:28 pm
I agree with you – the ethics police around here sometimes get out of control and make it feel like high school… Where they have a right to judge other grown adults by their own personal standards… I especially dislike the ones who scold everyone else and then do something hypocritical.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:13 pmHATE…The “Progressive ™†Value
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 2:44 pm
And your views on Muslims… All about love?
LOL
February 13th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI tought death, for the fundies, is supposed to be a joyous moment when man joins his ‘maker’ in a paradise of perfection…
Shouldn’t we then be happy for Norwood that his suffering is over?
My father died from cancer. It’s a terrible way to go.
Peace to his family at this time.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:19 pmAs a real progressive, one with genuine humanist values, I am disgusted by Liberal in NM, Spudge Boy, Mike Hunt, and others. The reason we humanists are better than neo-con Repubs is because we actually care about people, no matter how misguided their politics. Norwood had a mom, a wife, and kids who are all now deprived of his company. For a so-called progressive to take glee from the death of another is, as Daffy Duck says, dethpicable. And I would shower you hypocrites with Daffy’s slobber if I had the bandwidth. Liberal in NM, this genuine progressive humanist in NM is calling in your cred. Play nice or go away.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:20 pmMy fellow liberals, please do not go down the “see ya wouldn’t want to be ya” path on this. That’s the conservative approach and you’re only stooping to their level in a cheap act of pithy retribution. As liberals we should be above that.
He didn’t go to prison, he died. His game is over. The good people of his district will have to vote a replacement and, considering his margin of victory in 2006, will probably elect another Republican. It would be great to gain another seat but it won’t make that much of a difference if we did.
For the moment, be good people and swallow that need to rub in the loss of a life to someone else for something like politics. It’s the snarling republicans that do this kind of crap.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:20 pmPlay nice or go away.
Comment by Father O’KC — February 13, 2007 @ 5:20 pm
Humanists aren’t sanctimonious…
You go first.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:35 pmFor everyone who has reality problems with loss of life, then how do you explain that chicken or cow you had for dinner?
See, you can’t say that you abhore death when it is something you condone for your own benefit…
LiNM’s comment was simply a parody of what rightwingers say.
February 13th, 2007 at 5:38 pmGood riddance this former Klansman and murderer ( Norwood attended public schools before going off to boarding school at Baylor School, a military academy in Chattanooga, Tenn. It was there that Norwood shot and killed a close friend) can rot in hell with the other traitor fake Americans who voted FOR the Military Commisions Act removing Habeaus Corpus and approving torture.
Bill: S 3930
February 13th, 2007 at 6:02 pmVote description: Military Commissions Act
Vote type: Yea-and-Nay (Help)
A standard vote that requires a simple majority for approval or passage of the legislation.
Result: Passed, 250-170, with 12 not voting.
Date/time: September 29, 2006, 2:47 p.m.
Republican majority opinion: Yes (Help)
The position of more than 50 percent of voting Republicans. “None” means an equal split between “Yes” and “No.”
Democrat majority opinion: No (Help)
The position of more than 50 percent of voting Democrats. “None” means an equal split between “Yes” and “No.”
Key Vote Analysis
This bill would outlaw certain actions during interrogations by U.S. personnel, including torture, rape, biological experimentation, and “mutilation or maiming,†but would leave it up to the president to define what interrogation techniques outside those barred by the Geneva Conventions is still permissible. It also would authorize the creation of military tribunals and legally immunize CIA officers who may have engaged in activity characterized as torture. The bill goes on to bar non-American citizens from protesting their imprisonment if the president designates them as “enemy combatants.â€
Unbelievable, you call me sanctimonious, yet you give a pass to jerks who would celebrate the death of another? I haven’t checked Norwood’s voting record – I assume he was a party Republican, but he was also a human being, a father and grandfather, a veteran, and a medical professional. All of these make him worthy of more respect than a self-annointed liberal who rejoices at another’s suffering and calls it deserved. I think I will go away, for the same reason I’m not a neo-con. I don’t like to be judge by the company I keep.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:17 pmof course that should read, “judged”…
February 13th, 2007 at 6:18 pmOk, sadly I’m going to have to side with the “ethics police” here and say that applauding the death of another human being of cancer is a shitty way to act, for anyone. My great grandfather, who never smoked in his life, died of it, and it’s a horrible thing for anyone to suffer through. Taking any kind of joy from that kind of suffering is the exact opposite of the progressive values we profess to believe in.
And “But they did it first” is no excuse. Grow up.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:31 pmWere the republicans nice when Tim Johnson had bleeding on his brain that caused a stroke?
No, they weren’t.
They immediately started trying to figure out how to get a republican in his spot.
Screw the republicans.
I will be nice to them when they stop trying to ruin my country.
Ahh the old “they do it to us, so it’s ok to do it to them” trick. Sounds alot like the Republitard’s justification for torture if you ask me.
Don’t sink to their level by using the same arguments they do.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pmFather O’KC – you are so full of crap
February 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pmUnbelievable, you call me sanctimonious, yet you give a pass to jerks who would celebrate the death of another?
Judging others by your own moral compass is sanctimonious. So is calling them jerks.
The First Amendment affords us the right of free speech. As long as they haven’t harmed anyone (and I’m guessing his family members have better things to do with their time right now), it’s their right.
I haven’t checked Norwood’s voting record – I assume he was a party Republican, but he was also a human being, a father and grandfather, a veteran, and a medical professional.
As were all the people in Iraq who he’s supported the murder of…
The Bible says that the death of one who murders is good.
I’m an Atheist, personally. Not a big fan of hypocrisy.
All of these make him worthy of more respect than a self-annointed liberal who rejoices at another’s suffering and calls it deserved.
Nonsense. You think your way is the only way. You are wrong.
I think I will go away, for the same reason I’m not a neo-con.
You’re NOT a progressive.
I don’t like to be judge by the company I keep.
Comment by Father O’KC — February 13, 2007 @ 6:17 pm
Says the man who is judgmental! LOL! That is rich!
February 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pmTaking any kind of joy from that kind of suffering is the exact opposite of the progressive values we profess to believe in.
Comment by Jeremy Henderson — February 13, 2007 @ 6:31 pm
So is judging others… And expecting them to live by your moral compass instead of their own.
February 13th, 2007 at 6:36 pmFor the record – no progressives here are ‘taking joy’ in the man’s suffering… Let’s not build strawmen… That’s too neoconnish…
February 13th, 2007 at 6:38 pmAnd your views on Muslims… All about love?
LOL
Comment by unbelievable
And YOU seem to be the chief apologist.
You even speak for others.
You are so full of crap, I bet your eyes are brown.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:00 pmYou even speak for others.
I wasn’t speaking for anyone. I was simply pointing out the obvious to people who seem to need to put other people down to feel holier-than-thou… Instead of getting that it was an obvious slam of what the conservatives say when a liberal passes…
You are so full of crap, I bet your eyes are brown.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
Actually, they are brown because I inhereted the gene from my father. Not that I expect you to ‘believe’ in science or anything… LOL
February 13th, 2007 at 7:22 pmHe voted for the Iraq war, so 1/500th of the dead are his responsibility. Someone run the numbers onthis and tell us how many people are waiting to kick his ass in the afterlife?
February 13th, 2007 at 7:31 pmActually, they are brown because I inhereted the gene from my father. Not that I expect you to ‘believe’ in science or anything… LOL
Comment by unbelievable
Please, do tell me more about me and what I believe. I am curious how you know so much about me from a post or two. the same people that cry over the deaths of innocent Iraqis revel in the death of a U.S. Representative. If “LinNM” was being sarcastic, s/he would have said so. Instead s/he got more defensive. By your own standard, s/he should not be judging anyone.
Also, please show me one prominant Republican that has ran down a Democrat after his death. I do not mean YEARS after his death. But the same day, even the same week.
And yes, brown eyes and hair are dominant genes in human reproduction. Anyone with a fifth grade education could tell you that.
Face facts, some things are just in poor taste.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:40 pmFace facts, some things are just in poor taste.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
Sure… let’s start with your ‘name’, and then point out your posts.
Logic dictates, from your posts, that Science is not your subject of choice. LOL
So, let us know when you pass the fifth grade…
Later… I have a life that needs attendtion. Why don’t you get one. Then you could change your name to something less offensive…
February 13th, 2007 at 7:46 pmAlso, please show me one prominant Republican that has ran down a Democrat after his death. I do not mean YEARS after his death. But the same day, even the same week.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
I will later (takes time to post links to facts). I have to run…
February 13th, 2007 at 7:47 pmI will later (takes time to post links to facts). I have to run…
Comment by unbelievable
Exactly, you have to run when called to task.
But I never addressed science until you did. And my FACT was correct, unlike your spelling.
Later… I have a life that needs attendtion.
Comment by unbelievable
So, from this, we can determine that Spelling is not your subject of choice.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pm#38: I’m going to have to side with the “ethics police†here and say that applauding the death of another human being of cancer is a shitty way to act, for anyone. My great grandfather, who never smoked in his life, died of it, and it’s a horrible thing for anyone to suffer through. Taking any kind of joy from that kind of suffering is the exact opposite of the progressive values we profess to believe in.
And “But they did it first†is no excuse. Grow up.
I agree with this 100%. I disagreed with Charles Norwood on nearly every issue, but I think it’s in poor taste to dance on his grave. I believe that progressives should lead the way, and part of that is knowing how to debate in a civil and respectful manner.
February 13th, 2007 at 9:05 pmThese are difficult and ugly times……a little class is in order.
February 13th, 2007 at 9:11 pmAlso, please show me one prominant Republican that has ran down a Democrat after his death. I do not mean YEARS after his death. But the same day, even the same week.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 7:40 pm
First of all, I said, specifically:
LiNM’s comment was simply a parody of what rightwingers say.
Comment by unbelievable — February 13, 2007 @ 5:38 pm
YOU added the ‘prominent’ part to narrow my field. And to narrow it further, YOU, again, added the limit of ‘about Democrats’.
I was specifically thinking of the drooling jubilee by rightwingers when Saddam was hanged.
By comparison, Norwood is also a person who supported the murder of innocent Iraqis, therefore making it equally acceptable for someone who is against violent aggression to weigh the two in a similar fashion. I know you’ll protest. But you won’t have anything of substance upon which to do it.
Here are links of conservatives happy about the death of Saddam – posted here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/02/brokaw-hussein/
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/06/execution-turns-saddam-into-martyr/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070203033456AAysL06
I’m sure if you google it, you’ll find more. But I don’t imagine you will.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:28 pm“he should have been slapped around ,pound nails in him ,pull toenails out then let him suffer a couple of days then hanged”
—Compassionate Conservative #1
February 13th, 2007 at 10:29 pmExactly, you have to run when called to task.
You didn’t call me to task…
But I never addressed science until you did. And my FACT was correct, unlike your spelling.
You never make a typo?
Later… I have a life that needs attendtion.
Comment by unbelievable
So, from this, we can determine that Spelling is not your subject of choice.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 7:59 pm
No, you can logically conclude that I made a typo or that my typing skills suck. Or both – which is the truth.
If pointing out typos is all you have, then you’re past scraping the bottom of your barrel…
February 13th, 2007 at 10:32 pmGOT ME?
Comment by rachel ” the rich jew ” kinnardi — February 13, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
I’m not vvgfu. I’m only unbelievable. Deal with it.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:33 pmThe First Amendment entitles people to voice their opinions.
Progressives respect that without condescention.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:36 pmYOU added the ‘prominent’ part to narrow my field. And to narrow it further, YOU, again, added the limit of ‘about Democrats’.
Since many here have been railing on a Republican, a Democrat is the logical choice. I do not see anything you posted where right-wingers are saying such things about Democrats. You just keep linking to Saddam Hussein stories. Was Hussein a Democrat?
Also, I did not ask for a list of posts on a blog.
Come now, if it is so prevalent that the right does this, the information should be easy to find.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:50 pmUnbelievable,
Good night, luv. Remember to keep wearing your politics on your sleeve and your chip on your shoulder.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:54 pmYou people are insane. Good God! ‘08 is gonna be a breeze as long as you guys are still around. We could probably even win with Romney. P.S. I’m very much looking forward to meeting Liberal In New Mexico in hell.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:13 pmI do not see anything you posted where right-wingers are saying such things about Democrats.
I never said Democrat. Hello? You need help with your reading comprehension skills.
You can’t move the goal posts just because you lost.
You just keep linking to Saddam Hussein stories. Was Hussein a Democrat?
Also, I did not ask for a list of posts on a blog.
I never said Democrat – you did.
I was referencing those posts on a blog – since they are the linchpin in all of this.
Again, you cannopt change the rules in teh middle of teh game because you’re losing.
Come now, if it is so prevalent that the right does this, the information should be easy to find.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
Yes, it was – and I gave it to you. I can’t help it of you’re unwilling to accept it. Your willful ignorance is not my problem.
February 13th, 2007 at 11:22 pmRemember to keep wearing your politics on your sleeve and your chip on your shoulder.
Comment by hate — February 13, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
As long as you continue to project that, it is all you’ll ever see…
February 13th, 2007 at 11:23 pmi learned something from rachel madow tonight…
February 14th, 2007 at 12:45 amrep.norwood was mentioned, with sen.tim johnson,
by dubya in his last SOTU speech… remember?
No.
It’s that kind of appeasement that makes one fat politician a subject of tearful news reports, and the deaths of thousands of brave young men and women unfit for reporting.
February 14th, 2007 at 1:47 amDM, I’m not following your logic. By insulting a dead man and his family, that will repeal some kind of news blackout of the deaths of our soldiers? It would seem far more fitting that if everyone would be able to mourn any loss of life that it would, in turn, give reason to mourn every loss of life in war.
I just think that by celebrating the death of a person that 99% of the population of this thread more than likely didn’t know by name is a tad bit hypocritical to those who were offended when the right-wing reation Sen. Tim Johnson’s ailment. It’s a perfectly human thing to wish ill on your enemies but I think too many people are falling prey to labels here. Just because someone is Republican doesn’t necessarily mean they’re evil. That’s reactionary, not progressive thinking.
Besides, it’s the old axiom “if you can’t say something nice…”
February 14th, 2007 at 10:21 amI’m not celebrating his death, I’m appalled at the celebrity of his death.
And the old axiom “if you can’t say something nice” was built for people to endure each other in polite society. I don’t want to endure Republicans, I want have them punished for their war crimes.
February 14th, 2007 at 11:16 amThe celebrity of his death? I didn’t even hear about until I came here. An example of the celebrity of death would be Anna Nicole, not some frumpy congressman from Georgia.
I’m not suggesting that everyone shed tears because I know I’m not. I don’t know this man. I just know that a man died and people in his life will miss him. I know what that feels like; it sucks.
And if you don’t at the very least yearn for polite society than the problem for you isn’t just Republicans, my friend.
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