Posted on 09/14/2009 8:25:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
House Democratic leaders will move ahead with a "resolution of disapproval" against Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) on Tuesday afternoon, following through on their threat to sanction the conservative lawmaker for heckling President Obama during his speech to Congress last week.
Democratic leaders will formally introduce the resolution Tuesday afternoon, according to House insiders, and the vast majority of Democrats - as well as some Republicans - are expected to vote for it.
No decision had been made at press time as to which Democrat would be offering the resolution.
A number of Democrats, led by Majority Whip James Clyburn (S.C.) and other black lawmakers, were outraged when Wilson yelled out “You lie!” during Obama’s address, and they have pressed Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats to sanction Wilson.
Pelosi initially downplayed the Wilson episode as a distraction from thelarger issue of health care reform, but she has come around now to the position held by Clyburn and the other Democrats – if Wilson didn’t apologize on his own, on the House floor, then Democrats must take action.
Wilson issued an apology on Wednesday night following his outburst, and he called White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to apologize personally, but he has refused to go to the floor and offer contrition for his comments. Obama said he accepted Wilson’s apology.
Clyburn personally asked Wilson three times to offer a full apology to the House during a confrontation the two had on the floor the day after Obama’s speech. Since that exchange, Clyburn has led the charge to punish Wilson.
“Not addressing this issue sets a precedent for bad behavior,” said a senior House Democratic aide following Monday’s leadership meeting. “We’re not the British Parliament, for a reason.”
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Is Clyburn’s seat up for election in the next cycle?
Any repeat any Republican that votes in favor of a sanction must be turned into toast next election.
Ditto...any Republican that votes with this will be headed out of congress in 2010!!
To Serve Man is the episode. And it was my first thought too!!
LOL
Well, you know the old saying about great minds! LOL
Are you getting food cream?
It is a GOOD thing to have entered on the record of the peoples House that on 09-09-09 one lone Republican reacted to the flood of lies out of the mouth of the President of the United States, with ‘You lie’!!!!
All Republicans should be headed out of congress anyway!!!
I bet she retires to spend "more time with the family" when the Democrats lose the majority.
he needs a tan????
The democrat weaklings want Joe to whine and beg for their forgiveness. This is just more proof of the high and mighty mentality of the drunk on power democrats. I can’t wait until they are back in the minority where they belong.
Then he could make copies and sell them, kick the joke back on them, isn’t that the Alinsky rules?
and again
and again
for hours and hours
here there everywhere ... ON RADIO TV SHORTWAVE ONLINE...
apologize for
the Presidents Overt Lies!
for the President's attempt to spend trillions in the middle of a recession
He should apologize to America for not calling Bill Clinton a LIAR
AND PROMISING AMERICA THAT WE WON'T LET ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT LIE TO AMERICANS
Use this against the dems
Political Judo, using the dems attack momentum against them..
Obambi said:But know this: I won't stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. If you misrepresent what's in this plan, >>>>>we will call you out<<<<<. (Applause.) And I will not — and I will not accept the status quo as a solution. Not this time. Not now.
Well, Joe beat you to the punch obambi, JOE CALLED YOU OUT FIRST.....KEEP CALLING HIM OUT!
Who cares?
any pube that votes for this should be defeated at the primary. FU RINO B@STARDS.
any pube that votes for this should be defeated at the primary. FU RINO B@STARDS.
second double post in 9 years, sorry.
Print T-shirts, and sell them for the reelection campaign. “The candidate Democrats disapprove, and Americans support”.
” “We’re not the British Parliament, for a reason.””
The Brits have more honor than our congress.
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