House Nears House Vote Reprimanding Joe Wilson
Email ABC News’ Jonathan Karl reports: The House is expected to take up the resolution of disapproval regarding Rep. Joe Wilson’s "You lie!" outburst sometime after 2pm. The resolution will be short and sweet: a simple statement that Congressman Wilson acted inappropriately when he shouted out during the President’s speech to the Joint Session of Congress. There will be 60 minutes of debate; 30 minutes for each party. This will be a largely party line vote, but there are some notable exceptions. Rep. Bob Inglis – Republican of South Carolina – tells ABC News he will vote "yes" because he believes Wilson clearly violated House rules and should apologize. Inglis’s view on this is not a popular one with his constituents or his colleagues, but he told me he feels strongly about it. "I’ve said privately to Joe and now I’m saying it publicly that he needs to apologize in the forum in which the offense occurred," Rep. Inglis told ABC News. "We need to send a signal that, no, it wasn’t right. We don’t need want anti-heroes out there."
On the other side at least two Democrats have said they will vote "no" on the resolution because Wilson has already apologized (although he apologized to the White House, not the House of Representatives).
"I think it's bad precedent to put us in charge of deciding whether people act like jerks," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told AP. "I don't have time to monitor everyone's civility." UPDATE: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said he would introduce the resolution this afternoon. He told reporters it was a “very mild resolution, but it is an appropriate resolution,” since Wilson “offended the good order of the House” while the president was a guest of Congress. The brief resolution, reviewed this afternoon by ABC News, states that Wilson’s comment “was a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of a Joint Session of Congress to the discredit of the House.”
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Amidst all the moaning and hand wringing over the inexcusable act of calling the president a liar, will anyone comment on the irony that Congressman Wilson’s outburst interrupted a part of the President’s speech in which HE was calling those who disagreed with HIM liars?
Posted by: Tom Daglish | September 15, 2009, 2:05 pm 2:05 pm
Tom Daglish
Even more ironic, Wilson and the Republicans actually DID spread lies.
The President’s bill never covered abortions, set up death panels or cover illegal immigrants, as claimed by Sarah Palin, Joe Wilson, and the whole pack wing blow hardfs.
All together now: Republicans Lie! Republicans Lie! Republicans Lie!
Posted by: Amy in Maine | September 15, 2009, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
While Obama may not have intentionally lied, the evidence is clear…..CHIP is being heavily utilized by illegal immigrants. That is a known fact, and Obama did absolutely nothing to indicate how he would prevent that, in his health care plan.
While Mr. Wilson’s approach was not proper, his question, was.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | September 15, 2009, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm
His question? “Liar!” Is not a question. It is a verbal attack on the President of the United States.
Republicans could have shaped this bill, but they choose to make it Obama’s Waterloo.
Posted by: Amy in Maine | September 15, 2009, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
The irony is, Joe Wilson and his entire family all get free, single-payer, government-supported health through TRICARE. Yet, this is the same man who voted 11 times in 8 years to deny health care to veterans, and now is saying via his website that he’s out to stop single-payer, government-supported health. Yeah, right… unless of course, it effects him!
Posted by: Jay | September 15, 2009, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
Wilson should stand in line behind Pelosi, Reid, Franks and Rangle when it comes to calling people names and outright tax fraud!!! Let them apologize to the American People first!
Posted by: lovingpolitics | September 15, 2009, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm
Wilson, disgraced the entire nation by calling the Commander-in-Chief a liar, right in the hallowed grounds of the Capitol. I still can’t believe that a representative of the people has set a new and frightful standard for all of us. If you can openly DISRESPECT the President of the USA, the most powerful man in the World, then the rest of us can throw ceremony and decorum out the window and behave as we please. Wilson should have been ushered out of the meeting right then and there – isn’t there a Sargent of Arms or someone assigned to keeping order???Wilson is not fit to call himself a U.S. Representative and should STEP DOWN IMMDEDIATELY. THE REST OF US CITIZENS AS WELL AS THE WORLD WILL BE WATCHING TO SEE HOW THIS MATTER IS RESOLVED…also BOEHNER, STOP THE COWARDLY, ENVIOUS, VICIOUS AND DOWN RIGHT EVIL ATTACKS AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA. We the American public can see right through you and your antics. FOR GOD’S SAKE AT LEAST PRETEND TO BE A GOOD CHRISTIAN,OR IF YOU WILL A GOOD SPORT.
Posted by: Ruby Hilaire | September 15, 2009, 3:18 pm 3:18 pm
Hey, if the president might be shady concerning certain issues…then someone needs to speak up, right. This is politics, no one can tell me that all that is said, even about the health care reform, that it will take place-plus there are a lot of UN specifics concerning who will get health care benefits…ups, sorry, I got off the subject
Posted by: aaroncrowe | September 15, 2009, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm
How can anyone in their right mind believe that you can cover 50 million new people and not increase the cost? How can anyone believe that if you cut $90 billion from Medicare that services will not be cut and people will not receive treatments or medicine?
Posted by: Debby Uhtof | September 15, 2009, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm
The potus has accepted his apology. Why is that not good enough? By the way, if the shoe fits, wear it!
Posted by: koolaidedrinkernot | September 15, 2009, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm
Even if one does not agree with the President, the outburst was so disrespectful, so the rebuke was a good decision.
Posted by: Amy | September 16, 2009, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm