House Dems Intend To Scold Rep. Joe Wilson
Dissent is not only no longer patriotic, it gets one a smack on the wrist
House Democrats intend to pursue a formal resolution admonishing Representative Joe Wilson for his outburst against President Obama during the president’s speech to Congress on Wednesday night unless he apologizes on the floor.
Senior aides said Friday that the leadership had decided that the behavior of Mr. Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, in shouting “You lie!” merited some response by the House even though he had issued an apology and expressed his regrets to the president through Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
“It is a clear violation of the rules of the House, and it needs to be resolved on the floor of the House either by an apology or by a resolution,” said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Wilson is being advised to apologize on the House floor. Don’t do it! He made his apology to President Talking Points already. If he apologizes, then people will think Obama did not lie, when, in fact, he did.
(Wilson) added that he did not intend to be “muzzled” on the topic. “I will speak up and speak loudly against this risky plan,” he said in the video, referring to Democratic proposals.
Speaking up is the last thing the Democrats want. And, as Dan Riehl writes
I’m unconvinced continuing to play up the Wilson Obama incident works to the Democrats advantage. I don’t believe the average American cares that much about the supposedly official niceties of Congress. They’re rules, no better than the same ones that give them so many perks – such as their being excluded from any public health care option.
It doesn’t help the Democrats, because, like with Sarah Palin’s “death panels” comment, it exposes the issue to the light of day, and the American people start wondering what the big deal is, and find out.
BTW, doesn’t that pesky 1st Amendment read “Congress shall pass no law….abridging the freedom of speech”? Isn’t that exactly what said rules of the House, the Democrats are trying to scold Wilson with, are?
Anyhow, if Democrats want to play these games, what say we remind them of the smears of our troops and President Bush by Ted Kennedy, John Murtha, Waffles Kerry, and Dicky Durbin?
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Posted by William Teach on September 12, 2009 9:02 am
» Filed Under 1st Amendment, Anti-free speech, Barack Obama, Congress, Democrats, Gov.Censorship, House, Hypocrisy/Situational Ethics, Nancy Pelosi, News, Politics As Usual, President, Republicans, political opportunism
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“I apologize for picking a bad time to point out that Obama was lying through his teeth to the Congress and American people.”
It just helps Wilson raise money. I just hope, if he does take the floor, that he reminds people of Obama’s lies. Why does it take apparent inappropriate behavior to get a response from Congress?
Why should he apologize for telling the truth? Obama is a liar! He lies everytime he opens his mouth!
Dav Mav has a good theme. Done correctly, Wilson could use his “apology” to totally skewer Ozbama and the rest of the commies.
“I apologize that I yelled that President Obama was lying, while he was making his speech. True American Patriots are smart enough to have figured it out by themselves at that point. I’m sorry that I had to tell Rham Emanuel to pass along my apology, but we all know that the only way information makes its way into Obama’s teleprompter is to be put there with Mr. Emanuel’s permission. I apologize to the American people that our major media outlets have so dangerously decided to stack the deck against freedom and liberty by propping up this empty suit who seeks to destroy our American foundations. Further, I am sorry to have offended these “journalists” like Mr. Thomas Friedman who, in a recent column, cried with dismay that the US should be a one party autocracy like China…you know…the place that tells their citizens how many children they can have, the place that shoots people protesting in the name of liberty and the place that leads the world in executions. And I AM sorry that the thought of nationalizing our US health-care system in the name of a coward who once left a woman to suffocate in a car overturned in shallow water. Perhaps you folks on the left are right, I’m sure Mr. Kennedy was much more valuable to this country than getting all bent out of shape about the manslaughter of one innocent girl.
So there ya have it folks. Yep, I’m sorry for calling Obama out on national TV as a liar. I should have assumed that you already knew that. I’m sorry….but I’m not wrong.”
If Wilson gives this speech, he gets elected President in 2012.
You (Honorable Rep. Joe Wilson) are a patriot! Our endearing president has lied many times about the Health Care System. If I were there I would find it hard not to take off my shoe and throw it at Obama, hoping it would bounce off of him, hit Job Biden and then be reflected to Nancy Pelosi’s head. The proposed Health Care system is a threat to the United States of America. It not only seizes our Health Care System, leads the country to Socialism with a Marxist baseline and empowers the US Government to enslave all to government control of our lives. We the People need to take back our government from this absurd proposal. The Health Care System (Best In The World) can be enhanced within the current structure without empowering government to control our lives!! Thank you for calling a lie a lie.
Chuck Dunbar
Folsom, CA