Posted on 09/10/2009 12:36:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
It did indeed. It remains to be seen exactly what effect this will have in the long term. Hopefully, Wilson's comment will reverberate throughout the debate and poison the bill.
We'll see.
I didn’t catch it but this appears to be the group
There is a video link but I don’t see a transcript yet.
CSPAN has the 17 minute streaming video clip
http://www.cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/09/10/HP/R/22969/Lawmakers+React+to+Presidents+Health+Care+Speech.aspx
He makes a comment about talk radio etc “falsehoods” (lies in his view) at ~15:40
I can’t get streaming video here, so I can’t look up the exact quote, but he did say words to the effect that the Media should not cover the ‘extreme’ views....
(Really - I don’t think I’d hallucinate something like that.. ;))
I didn’t find that passage but I’ll keep an ear out for it in the future.
He’s a man who says he has a “healthy skepticism in organized religion” and yet we are not to question his honesty, integrity or intensions in pushing a partisan political agenda.
This is AWESOME — the unintended consequences of Democrats including Emmanuel attacking Wilson. He apologized for disrupting the speech but NOT for what he said — he stood by that.
Pelosi knows they don’t dare censure Wilson or it will open up a can of worms they don’t want in public aka Obamacare!
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Wilson should consider censure a badge of honor. He should also ask for Ways and Means Chairman and tax cheat Charles Rangel to RESIGN IMMEDIATELY.
Joe Wilson should sponsor a bill that censures himself, and get the entire House GOP caucus to back it. A few Ds might.
Otherwise, in voting against it, the Ds would have to look like they approved of his action.
If he got it on the floor, then he could do what Nazi P. is afraid of...air his grievances.
Rats booed, hissed and sat on their hands during Bush’s addresses to joint sessions of congress.
No comment.
Pelsoi should censure him - she would win. He was rude to interrupt obama’s propaganda speech, and even though he was right, telling the truth is no defense.
Every GOP rep should keep YouTube copies of Dem boo-hiss sessions on their laptops, and bring 'em to every single meeting they attend, so that they can whip out the proof should anybody accuse 'em of being uncooth or whatever.
I agree. But pubs are too prissy and pantywaisted to do that not proper decorum and all that turn the other cheek crap they practice while the country goes down the toilet.
Interesting point. It would be the political equivalent of a cytokine storm, turning the donks’ own preconditioned “immune responses” against their own movement.
I am very proud to say that Joe is my congressman, and we are blessed to have a very conservative district.
The local news this morning is showing Clyburn (blech!) demanding that Wilson now apologize to the House for the breach of decorum or else face censure. I guess Clyburn didn’t get the Pelosi memo to back off on the calls for censure.
Nancy, just to make sure there is no misunderstanding on the matter, how about letting the Republicans resubmit their amendment your committee has already voted down that *explicitly* excludes illegals? Otherwise, I think we need to keep Joe Wilson on the front page..
Pelosi was unusually harsh in describing the CIA. “They mislead us all the time,” she said. Asked whether the agency had lied, Pelosi said yes.
Newt explains it here:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/10/transcripts/gingrich.floor.html
When Wilson apologized he took what he did off of the table. (even though the left is trying to work to country up into a tizzy over it) The discussion is about the lie and not about Wilson (although he gets the obligatory mention)
I agree....This IS too good. Almost the best of both worlds drawing attention to illegals and the lies.
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