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The U.S. House Passed a Resolution of Disapproval for Rep. Joe Wilson’s "you lie" outburst during President Obama’s health care speech to Congress last week. The resolution passed 240-179.
Seven Republicans voted along with 233 Democrats in favor of the resolution. 12 Democrats and 167 Republicans voted against it with five Democrats voting "present."
Here is the text of the resolution:
RESOLUTION
Raising a question of the privileges of the House.Whereas on September 9, 2009, during the joint session of Congress convened pursuant to House Concurrent Resolution 179, the President of the United States, speaking at the invitation of the House and Senate, had his remarks interrupted by the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson; and
Whereas the conduct of the Representative from South Carolina was a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the House: Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the House of Representatives disapproves of the behavior of the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson, during the joint session of Congressheld on September 9, 2009.
UPDATE:
Here’s the vote count: Raising a question of the privileges of the House.
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Bipartisan!
Who are the non-democrats who believe that the President is in fact a liar?
Who are the Democrats who opposed the resolution, and who voted present?
They need to be cut off.
I’m surprised that Kucinich voted No. perhaps he is reserving the right to do same when the next dictator takes office.
Which reminds us all of the last reprimand the House issued: to Newt Gingrich in 1997, for “Allowing a Member-affiliated tax-exempt organization to be used for political purposes; providing inaccurate, and unreliable information to the ethics committee”
At least most of the Republicans were honest enough to admit that they have no problem with any action that disrupts or obstructs this administration’s efforts.
Can you imagine of one of the Dems would have said the same thing during one of Bush’s addresses. All hell would have broken lose. Limbaugh and Beck would have had strokes
I updated the post with a vote count link.
Chris Matthews has been pounding Joe Wilson on this. Matthews thinks that Wilson knew exactly what he was doing and smells “glory” in this “the wrong kind of glory”
He has also indicated that many old timers in the house “smell the old days in this” the bad old days.
Matthews keeps pounding Wilson’s action.
Said that Wilson could have come to the “well” and made his apology as many have asap and then been done with it. Wilson keeps working it