Posted on 9/10/2009, 1:46:53 AM by TaxPayer2000
WASHINGTON – The nastiness of August reached from the nation's town halls into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to move his health care plan forward.
South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" after Obama had talked about illegal immigrants.
It wasn't the only interruption during Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives. Earlier, Republicans laughed when Obama acknowledged that there are still significant details to be worked out before a health overhaul can be passed.
Wilson's outburst caused Obama to pause briefly before he went on with his speech. Overhead in the visitors' gallery, first Lady Michelle Obama shook her head from side to...
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LOl! Good for this representative.
Get his local address so we can send him re-election dough!
Maybe they will throw shoes during the state of the union speech...if 0bambi is there.....
Maybe Obama should hold real dialogues with Congress, rather than monologues. Maybe Obama should have question and answer sessions once a week like the British Prime Minister does.
You can tweet him here http://twitter.com/CongJoeWilson
Plz share it if you like. ;-)
He shouldn't apologize. It is absolutely true and I'm tired of 0bowdown calling Americans liars and lying about Republicans, Independents and Libertarians not having any other ideas.
Hoo ah,! Joe Wilson.
I can’t find any presstitude reference to Obama dropping the number of uninsured so he can’t be caught in the lie about covering illegals. Hmmm. Gosh.
"It was a shameful act," he told WTOP radio.
Hoyer said he'll work with GOP lawmakers to decide whether to punish Wilson. I guess it's much more respectable when democrats go on the tv circuit in front of adoring reporters to call GOP presidents liar.
Wow, triple death glare. I’d be most worried about Nancy’s.
First, average Americans express themselves at town hall meetings. And now Wilson gives a shout-out at a most inopportune time (according to the Left). Those Dems just can’t seem to control ordinary, patriotic Americans can they?
I hope Wilson’s wife isn’t the one who gave him a talking-to or put a guilt trip on him. I can see a spouse saying, “Honey, I can’t believe your outburst. Now we’re REALLY in big trouble.” It’s so refreshing to hear someone speak TRUTH to power and in public. I was hoping for just such a moment.
It probably said, “Note to self: Remind Rahm to send a dead fish to Wilson, his wife, and his kids.”
He kinda looks like Corbin Bernsen
Wilson spoke with his heart in the People’s House. I personally have been calling for someone to stand up to him at this speech. The MSM was forced to cover the townhalls after videos went viral. The same will be true of this outburst. The Speech tonight is now completely drowned out by two little words - truth spoken to power. Two words and everything Obama and his handlers wanted to accomplish went out the window.
Whether it was planned or this man simply had enough BS and stood up for those of us who see the countless lies, he accomplished more with two words than all of us bloggers can with thousands of posts.
As i said two days ago, “I know it’s crass, but i’d like someone to call him out on live TV”. Joe Wilson spoke out - even thought it was crass and it was uncivil. I’m glad that he did it, but I’m also glad that he apologized immediately - not for his comments, and not for his opposition, but because it was a crass thing to do. It shows that this man respects the Office and the Congress.
Now, rather than three days of the MSM crying for him to apologize, demonizing all of us as racists, there will be three days of video asking why did this happen? was it a lie? who is this Joe Wilson? Did it ruin his speech? Why are R’s so evil? etc. His apology was an excellent move and I respect him for doing it. It was crass and uncivil, but it was called for.
If I didn’t have zero faith in our party right now, i’d say they listened to us and planned this (and the apology) to take the steam out of OB speech. Let’s hope Jim can hold up to the Palin treatment.
"Lady Michelle Obama?"
"Lady?"
THIS AINT NO EFFIN MONARCHY, YOU DOLTS!
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