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Specter wants Wilson censured
http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0909/Specter_wants_Wilson_censured.html ^

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: ChicagoConservative27

Specter should apologize for ripping off Republicans for all those years he pretended to be one of us... And he should return all campaign contributions from conservatives during the years he was siding with dems against us.


81 posted on 09/10/2009 8:59:55 AM PDT by GOPJ (Who received the Van Jones FBI reports and who over-ruled the findings? fr:thouworm)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why?

Doesn’t he remember hos the dimocrats booed W and shouted “NO” to W?

Do all dimocrats have this short of a memory? LOL!


82 posted on 09/10/2009 9:01:08 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: gramho12; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Pete Stark compares Republicans to Nazis (on the record) (Congressional Records ^ | 3/20/02 | Pete Stark)

Mr. Chairman, there are some of us who remember this world in the 1930s, when Hitler suspended the Bundestag to promulgate conservative ideology and not let people speak. It is a shame that the Republicans in the House, Mr. Chairman, have taken up that same ideology and are denying a chance for debate and open discussion of a budget. It does smack of fascism; and it is too bad, because the American people will recognize that and understand that in a free economy, and in a free country that created programs like Social Security and Medicare and special education and aid for dependent children and aid for people who are unable to care for themselves, for the disabled, that to deny them care is obscene.

83 posted on 09/10/2009 9:01:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Kennedycare?Recall that "Animal Farm" begins with a Socialist Revolution to honor Big Major's legacy)
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To: a fool in paradise

Support Joe Wilson, call him at 1-202-225-2452


84 posted on 09/10/2009 9:10:04 AM PDT by Freddd (Government run health care=paying more and being denied what we already have.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

how about censoring Rangle


85 posted on 09/10/2009 9:11:35 AM PDT by maine-iac7 ("He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help" Lincoln)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tell Specter to go rectal himself.


86 posted on 09/10/2009 9:15:58 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Said the Republican-turned-Dem

Said the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Democrat

Fixed.

87 posted on 09/10/2009 9:18:22 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Call going to specter’s office......Wilson Called someone a liar.....specter ACTUALLY lied to people.....said he was a Republican but he wasn’t.


88 posted on 09/10/2009 9:19:23 AM PDT by 4integrity
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To: sand lake bar
I'd horse-whip Arlen Specter, if I had a horse.

I'm still waiting for Obama to apologize to Sgt. Crowley and the Cambridge Police Department.

89 posted on 09/10/2009 9:19:54 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: PhiKapMom

Spector is just trying to earn suck up points!!!


90 posted on 09/10/2009 9:20:55 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait till it is free! "~ PJ O'Rourke)
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To: y6162

That’s right! And nothing should be out of bounds for this SOCIALEST TYRUNT.


91 posted on 09/10/2009 9:27:34 AM PDT by mightypatriot
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To: ChicagoConservative27
We just might make a martyr of Wilson and this should also help mainline the contention that the Obama care does bring free care to wet backs. Certainly it would help put this issue under the microscope and bring it more attention.
92 posted on 09/10/2009 9:28:26 AM PDT by bilhosty (Tax payers for change)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The members of one body have ZERO say as to what occurs in the other, re: discipline, rules, etal. Chuck off, Specter.


93 posted on 09/10/2009 9:28:52 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Did Specter suggest similar measures for the people who boo’d the President (GWB43) from what was then his own party?


94 posted on 09/10/2009 9:29:40 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
lol if I was him and they threatened to censure me... I'd laugh in their face.... ohhhhhh!!!! scary!!!!! oh please, please don't censure me, NOT THAT!!!! ROFL

I would frame the newspaper articles and hang them on my wall as a badge of honor that I called the zero a liar, and got censured for it.

95 posted on 09/10/2009 9:34:37 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We are moving toward fascism and it’s being enabled by unhealthy congressional protocols that treat the president like a king. We need more of a parliamentary system where the president is held publickly accountable for his actions and policies. If we had a weekly “Question Time” like the British system, the birth certificate problem would have been taken care of instantly and 0 would have had more trouble telling lies like we heard last night.

Our Constitution is the best document on the planet, but our political system is one of the worst.


96 posted on 09/10/2009 9:35:28 AM PDT by balls
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To: mad_as_he$$
exactly.

He should of done exactly what Wayne La’Perrer did when confronted by Clinton... GO ON THE ATTACK FURTHER!

The yelling gave him a forum and a mic, by apologizing he has squandered a great opportunity.

97 posted on 09/10/2009 9:36:43 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied, the economy died)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

F**k you, Specter.


98 posted on 09/10/2009 9:37:32 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: MosesKnows
Censure may be in order but let's first determine if Wilson lied when he said Obama lied.

Whether or not Wilson was correct or incorrect is irrelevant -- he will be punished under the provision in Article I, Section 5, "disorderly behavior" in the Constitution. And they WILL punish him, his GOP fellows will go right along with whatever they decide, comity too much in their minds. Aggravating.

99 posted on 09/10/2009 9:37:42 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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To: Freddd

busy, busy, busy...


100 posted on 09/10/2009 9:41:10 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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