Posted on 12/03/2009 10:52:53 AM PST by pissant
My colleague Kenneth Vogel writes in from tonight's gathering of tea party activists in Washington for the premiere of a documentary about the movement:
After seeing Rep. Joe Wilson raise more than $1 million in the days following his "You lie!" outburst during President Obama's September address to Congress, Sen. Jim DeMint, a fellow South Carolina Republican, said he wished he'd been the one who lashed out.
Though Wilson apologized for the comment, he was pilloried by the left and lionized by Republican activists in the so-called Tea Party movement.
DeMint – who himself raised hackles on the left and in the White House, for predicting that Democratic efforts to reform healthcare will be Obama’s “Waterloo” and would “break him” – said Wednesday night that his first instinct after hearing Wilson’s outburst a couple months later was self-preservation.
“When I heard this ‘you lie’ comment, the President turned and looked at me and I said ‘Oh no, they think it’s me,’” DeMint told the crowd. When he learned it was Wilson, DeMint said he immediately became concerned that his friend could face a firestorm of criticism that could threaten him politically.
But, DeMint said, “a couple days later, after he raised a few million dollars off of it, I was thinking ‘why didn’t I say that?’”
“So Called” tea party movement.
The Socialists on the Left belong to the “So Called” Democrat Party.
IT’s really the communist party
Woo hoo!! Way to go DeMint!! But don’t worry about copyright. Stand up and shout out to Obama & Co. at any time: YOU LIE!
LATEST PROVISIONS Both House and Senate bills guarantee health benefits to illegals at taxpayer expense....costing into the hundreds of billions of dollars (paid for by soaking working class Americans). In addition to greatly expanding taxpayer liability, and escalating government’s role in healthcare, ObamaCare amounts to a reward for illegal aliens (another way they can ride the US gravy train) and a come-hither finger to lure more illegal aliens over the border.
I'm surprised US taxpayers aren't being compelled to pay for the healthcare of the entire Third World.
Oh, wait a sec, Obama just "forgot" to tell us about that........happens when we start forking over billions in "foreign aid" to these corrupt, flea-bitten countries.
It’s not too late DeMint.
feel free to yell out “You Lie” any time a democrat congressman or the President speaks in your presence.
Thanks Liz!!
Great graphic!
All the Republicans need to shout it out in unison during the State Of The Union…then watch Nancy squirt Botox out of her pores as she melts on the spot on national TV…poor Joe B will be covered in goo
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