Congressman Joe Wilson Speaks Truth to Power

the houston conservative ^ | 9/10/2009 | Will Malven

[Sudetenland]

"Oh, The humanity!"

During President Obama's speech last night, Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted out "You lie!" when the President asserted that no illegal aliens would be covered by Obama's health care reform proposal.

Although Representative Wilson immediately apologized for his outburst...even calling the White House to apologize directly to the President (I mean a genuine apology, not one of those non-apology apologies that Democrats make after they misbehave)...Democrats and liberals have taken great pains to demonstrate the humbrage at such an assault on the decorum of Congress and such a show of disrespect towards the President

[Sudetenland]

My little contribution...

[Yo-Yo]

Joe couldn’t help himself. It just sort of came out as a reflex, sort of like an “amen!” during the sermon at church...

[frogjerk]

The President deserves our respect as he constructs a huge power grab on our Liberty. I don't think so.

[Jeff Head]

Well written. Thanks.

Obama says he is going to save enough from one huge, inefficient, wasteful government program, Medicare, to pay for an even larger (eventually) also sure to be enefficient wasteful government program, Obamacare.

DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THAT BRAVO SIERRA?

Can you possibly trust or believe after the stimulus, bail-out, and Cash for Clunkers fiascos that this is what will happen?

No.

He says he wants to inject competition...by providing an entity that does not have to ever worry about making a profit. That's competition?

Read the bill the Democrats put forward. it is a HUGE government bureaucracy.

...and, it will lead to government officials deciding the standards (by his own admission of the Advisory Committee he mentioned) for who gets coverage and when the get it...basically, for older Americans and others with significant health conditions, it will amount to death panels. So who's the real liar?

In the end, despite whatever breach of protocol and decourm, the only one who addressed the entire Joint Session and spoke the truth was Joe Wilson. And he did it with just those two words...YOU LIE!

...and then, afterwards, Sarah responded and took Obama to the woodshed:

In fact, after promising to “make sure that no government bureaucrat .... gets between you and the health care you need,” the President repeated his call for an Independent Medicare Advisory Council -- an unelected, largely unaccountable group of bureaucrats charged with containing Medicare costs. He did not disavow his own statement that such a group, working outside of “normal political channels,” should guide decisions regarding that “huge driver of cost ... the chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives....” He did not disavow the statements of his health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, and continuing to pay his salary with taxpayer dollars proves a commitment to his beliefs. The President can keep making unsupported assertions, but until he directly responds to the arguments I’ve made, I’m going to call him out too. - Sarah Palin, September 9, 2009

EZEKIEL EMANUEL AND OBAMA HEALTH CARE
(Must Read - Shocking, cited quotes by Emanuel)

OBAMA HEALTH CARE BY THE NUMBERS

AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

[BufordP]

Republicans - notorious for apologizing. Big mistake! You should NEVER apologize for telling the truth.

[Paladin2]

That 0be continues to lie about the contents of the bill in Congress is “such a show of disrespect towards the” People.

[jimfree]

Wilson is going through the necessary motions. I told the leadership that only perfunctory punishment is in order. I sent Leader Boehner an email to express support for Wilson here: Contact Leader Boehner

[Nervous Tick]

Wilson should NOT have apoolgized. End of story!

Too bad, I could have had some respect for this guy... guess he’s merely another card-carrying member of the “stupid party”.

[MissesBush]

Yes, we’re suppose to be outraged at this while the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is a repeat and gross tax cheat. But, NO PROBLEM THERE! NO CENSURE SUGGESTIONS ON THAT ONE!

[isthisnickcool]

Congress deserves about as much respect as a bunch of drunks in the local jail drunk tank.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Actually, all the Republicans should have stood up, called him a liar and walked out!

[Robe]

such an assault on the decorum of Congress

Some one needs to brush up on their history, there have been fistfights and cane whoopins on that very floor

[Dick Bachert]

I take SERIOUS ISSUE with the caption to this thread: ARTICLE 1 of the Constitution, establishing the CONGRESS, is FIRST for a reason: The Founders put the real POWER — the POWER of the purse — there!

But we now have a problem!

Gang, we HAD a shot at cleaning these places out this last election and, to borrow a phrase from the klintoon White House, WE BLEW IT!!!

While I, like many of you, am saddened that McCain and Palin couldn’t keep the Marxist Obamessiah out of the White House, let’s try to keep things in some kind of rational perspective: ACORN elected a president and vice-president, NOT a monarch.

For years, I’ve been amazed at this idiotic quadrennial fascination with the beauty contest known as the (cue the trumpet fanfare) “PRESIDENTIAL RACE.” Our inattention and/or apparent desire for a king or a strong man dictatorship has allowed our system to morph to the present quasi-monarchy from its original foundations as a representative REPUBLIC.

People, the most important thing we can remember about all of this is that the Founders constructed the system to put – AND KEEP — the KEYS TO THE FEDERAL CASH REGISTER IN CONGRESS and the current Gang of 535 could bring this out-of-control government spending and the steady usurpation of our freedoms to a screeching halt tomorrow at noon — IF THEY WANTED TO. Attila the Hun could occupy the White House and without the dough to hire the bureaucrats, buy the desks and computers, etc., etc. ad nauseum, Mr. Hun would be hamstrung. (See Article 1, Section 7 of the now largely moribund Constitution for details.)

But they DON’T — for a number of reasons: (And I cite the tax situation as but one example of the problem. Don’t get me started on the ENERGY and Algore’s gloBULL warming scam!)

1. They understand the need to vacuum the excess FRAUDS (Federal Reserve Accounting Unit Denominators) — there are no “dollars” circulating now! — out of circulation BEFORE the bulk of the dumb masses (say it really fast for maximum effect) catch on to the resultant inflation. If you question that statement, ask yourself why else would a criminal enterprise (the federal government) having the power to “create” “money” with the stroke of a pen NEED YOURS every April 15th?

2. The current Gang of 535 understands the need for the massive tax code (so-called because it is written in code by gnomes chained to posts in the cellars of K Street lobbying firms and understood only by their keepers) to reward their friends, punish their enemies and keep the rest of us under their thumbs with threats of draconian punishments should we run afoul of it. It is impossible to NOT run afoul of it.

3. While the dumb masses rant about the abusive practices of this top criminal enterprise’s subsidiary criminal enterprise (the IRS), members of the Gang can pose and posture for the cameras from time to time and declare that “something MUST be done to reign in the abuses of the IRS,” NOTHING WILL BE DONE until we clean house on Capitol Hill and get back to the HONEST, CONSTITUTIONAL MONEY called for at Art.1, Sect. 10. They’ve been playing a rigged game of 3 card-Monte with us for so long – and getting away with it – that, as Herman Cain’s book title declares – “They Think You’re STUPID.” And, hell, for MOST of the dumb masses, they’re right.

And THAT process starts in YOUR STATE and CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT by finding and supporting decent candidates — at ALL levels — who will go to YOUR state capitol and Malfunction Junction and do that house cleaning. Not marching on Washington (unless MILLIONS of pitchfork wielding folk crowd the Mall, the elites are amused by these things and the only folks who benefit from the finite patriot resources devoted to them are the airlines, hotels and restaurants in D.C.)...not sending “money” to the RNC (LOL!)...not writing poison pen letters to these current jerks...but THROWING OUT THE CURRENT JERKS you have identified as NOT having the country’s interests at heart and doing it as many times as necessary to get it done. And then watching the NEW GUYS like a hawk to make certain THEY don’t go bad from imbibing too much of that power Kool-Aid so popular in Disneyland on The Potomac.

A good news in the viability of this approach is that the controlled so-called national mainstream media have far less impact on these widely separated congressional races making it easier to get some good guys elected.

The bad news is that I can speak from personal experience about how the national PARTIES will survey all the contested congressional races and if they DO find a candidate they do not or think they cannot control running on their side, they’ll offer a “consultant” from headquarters to come in and ASSIST the campaign. In at least 4 cases with which I am familiar, the Republican National Committee TORPEDOED those campaigns so a good guy who might be more inclined to cling to the Constitution before toeing the party line didn’t make it to D.C.

And for you who, like a sad number of the dumb masses, THINK YOUR GUY IS OK, go to GRADEGOV at

http://www.gradegov.com/

for your guy’s voting record on taxes, spending or your personal hot button issues. You might be in for an unpleasant surprise.

I often get the strong sense that the American people have some sick and sophomoric yearning for a new ROYAL FAMILY or BENEVOLENT KING to make their lives what they themselves feel incapable of making them without some nanny-state sovereign. Throughout history, with few exceptions conspicuous because of their rarity, those systems nearly always become malignant and freedom founders and eventually fails. With the exception of America – the IDEA, not the place – most men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves.

As opportunities afford themselves (and this is one), I simply attempt to remind my fellow citizens of that history and what lies ahead if they continue in their ignorance of that history.

I could go on for volumes but you get the idea.

One final thought: With the exception of the guys who CLEARLY pass muster at GRADEGOV, RE-ELECT NOBODY!!!!!

Standing by for a record breaking flaming by the fanatics.

[skeeter]

I don’t see what the problem is. The term ‘liar’ was popularized by democrats in congress during the last president’s term.

[Sudetenland]

Not in recent history...meaning the past century

[LibFreeUSA]

Joe did nothing wrong. It’s just that RATs start to hyperventalte and recoil (ala Bela Lugosi) when you speak and show TRUTH!

[LibFreeUSA]

[MosesKnows]

Wilson immediately apologized for his outburst

Doesn't this event beg the question? Did Obama lie?

It is my opinion that Obama did indeed lie; not a flat out lie but a lie steeped in omission. An example of Obama's intellectual dishonesty.

Reading what Obama refers to in HR 3200 is akin to writing a law that establishes the legal drinking age at 21 but the same law contains a provision forbidding the bartender from asking for identification.

[panaxanax]

I fell asleep thinking I had a new hero and woke up at 4:30 a.m finding out he is a turncoat apologist. He has castrated himself.