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Specter wants Wilson censured
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Posted on 09/10/2009 8:12:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Specter wants Wilson censured

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Penn.), who's looked at POTUS from both sides now, was just on the Bill Press radio show suggesting the South Carolina firebrand Joe Wilson be censured for his heckle heard round the world.

Said the Republican-turned-Dem:

"He apologized immediately afterward but I don't think that’s adequate... If an apology is the consequence of an outburst I think we can expect more – that’s not a sufficient penalty that’s not a sufficient price to pay.. I'm not saying the guy should be kicked out of the House… But there ought to be some rebuke, reprimand, censure -- something that will discourage that kind of conduct in the future. If you do that to the President, it's open season."

Earlier on his show, Press spoke with House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC), who said Wilson should "man up" and apologize directly to Obama -- or that Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) should mea culpa the White House on his behalf.


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To: Toespi

Amen!


61 posted on 09/10/2009 8:36:28 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: PhiKapMom

I wonder how Specter feels about Rangel being investigated!...if he is going to police the House.


62 posted on 09/10/2009 8:37:05 AM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Toespi
...why doesn’t he have Pelosi censored...

Not "censored", but "censured".

Censored = silenced; Censured = chastised, reproved, punished

63 posted on 09/10/2009 8:37:15 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Arlen who?

Oh, that moron.

Did he call for censure against all who spoke against Bush?


64 posted on 09/10/2009 8:37:35 AM PDT by DakotaRed (What happened to the country I fought for?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What a putz.


65 posted on 09/10/2009 8:38:13 AM PDT by bvw
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I want Spector dragged away in chains. So what?


66 posted on 09/10/2009 8:41:38 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But Arlen thinks it’s just for for 0 to lie about Sarah.


67 posted on 09/10/2009 8:42:36 AM PDT by Tribune7 (I am Jim Thompson!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27


Biden: Gaaaaaaaaad, someone needs their diaper changed!

Arlen: Sorry Joe, thats me.
68 posted on 09/10/2009 8:43:06 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 ("Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - Anonymous)
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To: smartymarty

“If our Founding Fathers succombed to censure Spectre wouldn’t have a job today. scumbag”

He would have sided with the Tories anyway.


69 posted on 09/10/2009 8:44:48 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Specter wants Wilson censured

Censure may be in order but let's first determine if Wilson lied when he said Obama lied.

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.

70 posted on 09/10/2009 8:45:08 AM PDT by MosesKnows (Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
They need to circle the wagons around Wilson, not leave him out to dry. This is the problem with Republicans, they don't know how to resist global socialism, a violent, destructive, movement to whose followers the ends justify the means. Wilson spoke the truth, and used an Alinsky tactic against an Alinsky-ite, to resist the further consolidation of an authoritarian regime.

But no, Republican elites will be aghast.

Have these idiots ever seen the British parliament?

71 posted on 09/10/2009 8:49:36 AM PDT by Defiant (Baby Boomers: The first generation in human history to not want to become adults, and they haven't.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I want Specter fired.


72 posted on 09/10/2009 8:51:09 AM PDT by Billg64 (It is my belief that this is our last opportunity to peacefully protect our republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Few things are more disgusting than fake-hypocritical leftist outrage.


73 posted on 09/10/2009 8:51:21 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: PhiKapMom
It is not the job of the Senate especially Specter to tell the House what to do or not do.

Somebody should introduce a bill simultaneously censuring Congressman and retroactively censuring the Democrats who booed Bush in his State of the Union address in 2005.

74 posted on 09/10/2009 8:51:55 AM PDT by cookcounty ("Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." ---Yeats)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s perfectly fine with Arlen that in a joint session of Congress, televised around the world, Obama called Sarah Palin a liar along with calling more than half of Americans liars and crazies.

Obama will be the tool destroying America but fools like Specter, Graham, McCain, Kennedy, Frank, Pelosi and Reid are the ones who set the stage, enable him, and protect him.

Of the 545 individuals in Congress, the White House and SCOTUS how many are actally loyal patriots, worthy of the trust they are given?

Certainly no more than 10 percent.


75 posted on 09/10/2009 8:52:10 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat." - Claire Wolfe)
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To: PhiKapMom
It is not the job of the Senate especially Specter to tell the House what to do or not do.

He is most likely depending of Scottish Law again.

76 posted on 09/10/2009 8:52:19 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: presently no screen name
Palin is owed apologies from hordes of people in high places, but such JERKS seldom apologize.
77 posted on 09/10/2009 8:53:45 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (America is ailin'-the cure is Palin.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Well, then...by the same standard, Obama should be censured for calling his opponents liars in his speech last night:

"Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim, made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple."

And where's their apology from him for that remark? {crickets}
78 posted on 09/10/2009 8:53:56 AM PDT by ravingnutter
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Joe Wilson, If they censure you, WEAR IT AS A BADGE OF COURAGE. TAKE BACK YOUR APPOLOGY.

Republicans in Congress: GROW SPINES OR BE THE MINORITY PARTY FOR ANOTHER GENERATION.

79 posted on 09/10/2009 8:56:11 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: a fool in paradise
Hmmm. My memory isn't too good, but were any of the following censured?:Teddy Kennedy when he called President Bush "Liar, Liar" on the floor of the Senate; when Dicky-boy Durbin compared our soldiers to Nazis....

I could go on, but you catch my drift...

80 posted on 09/10/2009 8:57:23 AM PDT by gramho12 (DC here I come.....)
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