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Didn’t help his cause bad mouthing Glen Beck either on false accusations CONGRESSMAN’S ATTEMPT TO SPIN SUPPORT FOR GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE GETS HIM ‘BARRETTED’ South Carolina’s wackiest member of Congress got a harsh wake-up call Thursday night at a town hall meeting in which he unsuccessfully tried to spin a plan to turn private health care into a massive, government-run, bureaucratic nightmare. At the meeting, held in Boiling Springs, 4th District Rep. Bob Inglis desperately pleaded with his constituents to see things his way and consider President Obama’s trillion-dollar proposal that would tax the uninsured, cut or destroy Medicare, and...

... but the way he did so may raise some eyebrows. Rep. Bob Inglis, an upstate South Carolina Republican, put it this way to the Spartanburg Herald-Journal's Jason Spencer: On Sanford's ability to govern while dealing with a personal crisis: I don’t think that’s a problem. We are all coping in our private lives with personal issues. That would be like saying Sarah Palin shouldn’t be governor of Alaska because she has a special needs child. Gov. Palin is coping with a special needs child. That’s a lot to put on somebody. That’s a lot to put on a marriage....

South Carolina Rep. Bob Inglis made a name for himself in the late 1990s as one of Bill Clinton's most zealous pursuers, an impeachment "manager" who attacked the moral failings of the president with a gusto that earned him a devoted following in the staunchly conservative "Upstate" of conservative South Carolina. But with his governor now felled by similar temptations, Inglis sees an opening for the Republican Party, a chance to "lose the stinking rot of self-righteousness" and "to understand we are all in need of some grace." This is not "Bob Inglis 1.0," the one that was a "self-righteous"...

Conservatives have warned of the disastrous economic effects of Barack Obama’s proposed cap-and-trade system and the massive burdens it will impose on American families. Republicans have derided it as a tax, and a particularly regressive one, that will force working-class earners to choose between heat, lighting, and food. In response, House conservatives have proposed … a carbon tax?

WASHINGTON -- Five weeks after Rep. Bob Inglis broke with his party and his president to vote against the U.S. troop surge in Iraq, the South Carolina Republican is engaged in an all-out effort to save his seat. Inglis, one of 17 House Republicans who opposed the troop increase, is sending his constituents multiple mailings, calling local GOP activists, even posting an unusual video of himself explaining his vote on his congressional Web site. Saying he feared the surge "would actually send the wrong message to the Iraqi leadership," Inglis explains that the United States should set deadlines for specific...

WASHINGTON - Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina voted Friday against President Bush's dispatch of more troops to Iraq, joining just 16 other Republican lawmakers who opposed the surge in a House vote. After the vote, Inglis said it was one of the most difficult decisions of his more than eight years in Congress. "I saw this vote as a vote of conscience, rather than a vote of representation," Inglis said in an interview. "I consciously tried to disregard the political consequences." Inglis said his office had received at least 250 calls about the vote, mainly from constituents, and he...

Kiwi mountaineer Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mount Everest last night to become the first double-amputee to conquer the world's highest peak. His wife, Anne Inglis, sent a text message to The Press and Inglis' supporters late last evening which said: "Mark definitely made it, back at Camp 4. They are in high spirits. Anne."