Rebuking Mr. WilsonFollow

The House neared a vote to admonish Rep. Wilson over his outburst during Obama's healthcare speech today.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTWB1M9VPOte4M77spW7Z62NsGyQD9ANV0PG0

This is why the Democrats fail to maintain my support, and the country's, as a party. They always seem to engage in some stupid and petty self-destructing act which shifts public opinion to the Republicans.

This is one of those rare moments when I actually agree with a Republican about something.



Rep. Wilson has already apologized. He got a lecture on civility by Rahm Emanuel. A resolution will accomplish nothing, it is a waste of time and taxpayer money. With all of the problems we have in this country and good bills sitting on the floor doing nothing, why are they wasting our time with this crap? It's childish bickering.

Frankly, I would like for our Representatives to be able to yell at the President and call him a liar because we have had criminals like the Bush regime who were liars and deserved to be called out for it.

If the Republicans want to yell like idiots in the floor chamber and fail at their chances for re-election by acting the fool, let them, and don't jump right into the fray with them.

You must have extremely selective hearing if this is the first time you've heard of petty, self-destructing acts committed by a politician.

I kind of agree with Soul Shaver here. The resolution may just be "more theater" as Joph suggestions, but why? Why couldn't the democrats just let it go and be the "bigger man" here? It's nothing more than a continuation of petty behavior on both sides. These people are supposed to be smart, sensible, well rounded representatives of America. Watching them behave like a kindergarten class is not only an observation of wasted time but also demoralizing to the people who had hoped for better.

I'm not going to get up in arms about it, but it is unnecessary.



At least it sounds like his "interruption" wasn't a complete waste (unlike the democrat's response being discussed here).



Go figure. Stronger verification requirements might upset Hispanic law makers. Wonder why...

Edited, Sep 15th 2009 4:53pm by BrownDuck

Because they thought there'd be a gain from it, obviously. More fund raising or a gain from keeping the story in the news or whatever. I'm not privy to what they thought that gain might be but obviously there thought there'd be one.

You invented filly-busters

Deal with it

Saying that the Republicans are worse or that our elected officials wouldn't do anything productive with this time anyway isn't the point. We should expect more from our elected officials.

I actually just found out that Rep. Barney Frank is pretty much saying the same thing about this so kudos to him and the other Democrats that don't play to petty partisan bickering. Everyone knows that this particular behavior is frowned upon and a resolution won't somehow magically make people behave. All the Democrats are doing is hurting themselves politically which empowers Republicans.

And that's why he apologized to Obama. He apologized, Obama accepted, it could of and should of been done right there. Someone did something silly, and they had to apologize.



And that's why he apologized. Much more than you would be likely to get out of a number of politicians on either side.

Who exactly decided this would be a good idea to ***** and moan for more apologizing instead of just moving on to more important matters?

It's the House, well some of the House, wanting to make a statement that this crossed the line of acceptable behavior. Big Deal.

...or go to the barrel full of pundits and find a gazillion other 'hidden' reasons for this latest twist in As the Gov Turns.

Hey did you know The Guiding Light, after 72 YEARS! of daily soap, is ending production.

The media is itching for stories to make the midterms competitive and counterbalance the Democrat's majority and this is front page material. Efficient politicians solving problems in Washington isn't exactly good "news." It makes the Democrats look like they are more concerned with playground politics than with actually solving problems.

They have a majority in Congress and a sitting President, what more can we give them to work hard to fix our problems? People are on the fence right now about Obama and the Dems and they are getting impatient and worried about healthcare and the deficit, which means they will be very sensitive and reactive to what is shown in the media about the political process. I can already see the Republican business machine picking up some of political momentum over this.

Jealous much.

Assuming the clip I heard wasn't fake, it's just another reason to like Obama.

This really bothers me since Obama should have called Kenye a douche.

I heard the audio from that exchange this morning. It cracked me up a little that "off the record" casual Obama sounds exactly like "On the record" Obama aside from the word "jackass".

Edited, Sep 16th 2009 8:26am by Jophiel