Posted on 09/10/2009 1:34:49 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
LITTLETON, Colorado (BNO NEWS) -- Former Republican U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo says Rep. Joe Wilson should not apologize for "telling the truth" when he shouted "you lie" to President Obama during his address to Congress on Wednesday.
Wilson received fierce criticism for his outburst in Congress, which was aired live around the world. Wilson immediately apologized to President Obama, which he accepted.
"Joe is right, Obama is a liar," Tancredo said in a statement on Thursday afternoon. "Republicans attempted to attach language to the Democrat health care bill in committee that would have required the government to verify the legal status of anyone receiving benefits under the plan and imposed enforcement mechanisms for violations of that requirement. Unfortunately, the Democrats voted that amendment down," the former congressman from Colorado continued. "If the Democrats and the President truly wanted to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining publicly funded health care benefits, they would have approved that amendment."
Tancredo continues on to say they are not alone in questioning Obama's claims. He gives a letter from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf as an example, which he wrote on June 15.
Elmendorf wrote: "According to the preliminary analysis, once the proposal was fully implemented, the number of people who are uninsured would decline to about 36 or 37 million, representing about 13 percent of the nonelderly population. (Roughly a third of those would be unauthorized immigrants or individuals who are eligible for Medicaid but not enrolled in that program.)"
Tancredo also questioned the facts for other claims made by Obama. "The President expects us to believe that he can provide health insurance free of charge to those who can't afford it, the care will not be rationed, premiums cannot go up, risk factors cannot be considered, no one will be excluded, taxes will not increase, and that none of this will cost the taxpayers a dime. In fact, he expects us to believe this huge federal program will actually save the taxpayer money. How dumb does the President think the American people are?," Tancredo asks.
"First the President tells America that we are facing imminent national bankruptcy because of Medicare's spiraling costs -- then in the next breath he tells us that his solution to this problem is to basically expand Medicare to cover any person in America, and that this will result in a reduction in the deficit. In essence - he is arguing that the best way to reduce spending is to spend more. This makes no sense," he continues.
"It's as if Democrats in Washington have become so drunk with power that they now believe they can repeal the basic laws of economics with a simple majority vote of Congress," Tancredo concluded.
Right.....because those rowdy out of control town halls really hurt us...oops. Guess they didn’t.
You know what hurts us? When Republicans bend over and refuse to tell the truth for the sake of “civility and decorum” while the enemies are screaming they are Nazi’s. That’s what hurts us.
I have no use for your idea of politics anymore. It didn’t work, it never worked. From now on we tell the truth, unvarnished and without fear of what the other side says about us. They are going to lie either way.
Been here for a while - thanks.
REALLY??? You honestly think this way??? Not me. I was THRILLED someone had the guts to speak out in front of God and everyone. It is a lie . . . should be called a lie. I was cheering for the guy and sad to hear he was probably FORCED to apologize. Need more like him.
Maybe, but it was heard around the world. Guess what I did today, I researched how many lies , in total, were presented by YOUR LIAR IN CHIEF in his 55 minute bore. Came up with seven at first glance. I think he is a worse liar than your “ I did not have sex with that woman” ex President.
The worst lie of the night was “ First, I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future". This from a guy who added more debt to your taxpayers in 6 months than the cumulative debt incurred for the two centuries that preceded him! Thanks to Mr. Wilson this speech is seared in my memory has the Obama lying session before the American joint congress. If my eyes did not cheat me, I saw embarrassment on the face of some Democrats! As my favorite political philosopher stated: 'In a demecracy, you deserve the government that you elect and you deserve everything that they do to you once in power" Sincere good luck to your democracy because I'm smart enough to know that if yours is taken away, ours will die soon after.
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Tancredo is one of the few who ever had any guts.
He was also brave enough to tell the truth about Islam.
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Barack Hussein Obama has banned the National Day of Prayer from the White House, now get a load of THIS!!
ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 - islamoncapitolhill.com
Alarming! Infuriating!!
Does THIS leave any doubt as to what we have sitting in the White House?
Be sure to read every page!
Every page ends with ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’!!
http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html
I’m “In Maryland” also. You’re what’s wrong with Maryland.
The POS in Chief can call Palin a liar and get standing ovations, but don’t you DARE calling the Oshyster a liar.
I not only disagree, but disagree strongly. To believe that conservatives are, as you term, "out-of-control" and are pursuing the debate from the moral low ground, one must be willfully blind. When the Speaker of the House refers to American citizens voicing their opinions at town hall meetings as Nazis, how in the world is calling the President a liar (which, by the way, he has been repeatedly documented to be) an act of wretched excess? It is high time some elected official showed the courage to say what is on the mind, an in the hearts, of millions of Americans. Rep. Wilson deserves our thanks and support.
Tancredo BUMP!
Hah!
1) "Worse Liar" as in "not as good at it" ... Yep. Zero just doesn't have X42's slimy ability to weasel around the truth. His lies are more obvious and less convincing.
2) "Worse Liar" as in "does it more often" ... Yep. Zero makes up for his lack of skill in prevarication by spewing out more mendacity per 100 words of speechifying than X42 ever considered. He also spews out more total senseless verbiage than X42.
WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! This is like saying you can reason with bullies... we have been polite for too long, now is time for us to be honest...from the plumber to the congressman.. no more bowing our heads and averting our eyes and trying to be “above all that”. I want to see more public acknowlegement that the emperor is truly naked.
From now on we tell the truth, unvarnished and without fear of what the other side says about us. They are going to lie either way.
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That is exactly why I loved hearing the “you lie.” He said what came from his gut without fear of whether or not he might get voted out of office.
I work in LIBERAL academia . . . I stopped this being afraid I might hurt feelings some time ago. I am totally over it.
I’m “In Maryland” also. You’re what’s wrong with Maryland.
Bravo! I am from Maryland no longer. A once beautiful state into a sociological cesspool.
Incidentally isn't Nancy Pelosi an original resident also?
Haven’t seen any poll that says how he did in this lie speech. Except for the stacked CNN poll of course. What did Rasmussen have as a results of this lie fest?
Wilson shouldn’t have been alone, and he should have been cheered by the republicans.
I believe she was originally hatched in Baltimore. Both her brother and father served as Mayor of Baltimore at some time. I’m sure they both had a hand in ruining Baltimore. I guess at some point she climbed on her broom and went off to ruin San Francisco.
If I could get out I’d go to Alabama. Maybe some day.
‘Wilson’s outburst, no matter how true, was uncalled for. And in the end it was politically stupid beyond belief - it simply plays into the liberal stereotype of conservatives being out-of-control. Moreover, it helps convince the large “middle” that the liberals are right about us.’
I disagree. Liberals now have their own stereotype issues to deal with - beating up conservative black men and biting the fingers off of opponents, calling opponents ‘Nazi’s’ and ‘evil-mongers’, and so on. And, the large ‘middle’ (independents) has been abandoning Nobama for a few months, perhaps because they believe in their hearts exactly what Wilson said out loud during the speech. I think that, given the chance to have a do-over, Wilson wouldn’t have said anything, but the fear of some big backlash against conservatives is unfounded. The mentally deranged folks are on the other side, and we look rather tame and composed when compared to them.
Tancredo let McPain outperform in those “debates”. The American people would be fearful of Tancredo nevertheless.
all right!!!
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