Rep. Wilson: Outburst was ‘Spontaneous’; Leadership Asked Me to Apologize

The comment was out of order in that situation, but Illegals will continue to get services. They can not be denied under the law, so Joe was correct; the whole thing is a lie. You young people will pay forever, but that is your problem.

Would he oppose that these illegals buy a private insurance package for coverage?

Mr. Wilson..there is such a thing as respect and you showed none. Your party should not have had to tell you to apologize. When the guy threw his shoes at President Bush, he was punished for disrespect. We need a little more of that here in our country. Freedom of speech is not an excuse to be rude. There is a time and a place for everything. If you really wanted to make a statment….tell it to him to his face in his office. Oh,then you would not be noticed. Unfortunately, you will only see negtive results to this arrogance.

Thank you Mr. Wilson for saying to Obama what most Americans believe and would love to have said but will never have an opportunity to be in a room with Obama to express those beliefs! We all know that illegals will be covered under this bill because there is no enforcement for them not to be covered. If they show up at a hospital for treatment, the hospital is not allowed to ask if they are a citizen. My point is proven by the fact that there are laws that say illegals can’t reside in the United States and those laws are not enforced. The Americans that get out of bed every day and go to work and pay their taxes are sick of all the free-loaders in this country who spend all their time figuring out ways to work the system and get something for nothing. THE TAXPAYERS ARE SICK OF PAYING THE WAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN TAUGHT A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT BY OUR GOVERNMENT!!!! EVERY HARD WORKING, TAXPAYING AMERICAN CITIZEN NEEDS TO SEND THIS MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON EVERYDAY – “I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE!”

That guy Wilson should step down….he is rude and shows no respect for the President, America, or Congress.

He needed the Republican leadership to tell him to apologize? Didn’t he wake up this morning and say to himself, “perhaps that wasn’t a good idea, spontaneous or not?” Everyone makes mistakes but he isn’t taking responsibility.
To say that the President lies and to say that the bill lacks clarity are two different things. I can go with the clarity part for sure and wish that the town hall meetings would have served this purpose but then again look what happened there.

As a life long Democrat, I take my hat off to Wilson. He only said out loud what so many others have thought for months. He and he alone had the courage to call Obama what he is, a liar.

“Well I last night heard from the leadership that they wanted me to contact the White House and state that my statements were inappropriate and I did,”……However, -I- am not sorry. I’m just a crazy jerk who forgot where I was…Heck, I thought it was Friday, & I was at the local high school football game. Imagine my surprise, when I realized I was seated on the floor of United States Capital.Dang! But, if I want to keep this wacky seat of mine, I better make nicey and do what the “Leadership” tells me to do. After all, who was I before all this……Shhhhhhhh…I need to keep this job for the perks & the insurance….

Pap, what Mr. Wilson did last night is completely disrespectful and does not deserve to be credited – You can state your opinions and your oppositions, but not at the Presidential Address. It’s not the forum for such outburst – additionally, Wilson did not have his facts straight and was wrong – therefore he is either stupid or greedy – greedy because he receives contributions from insurance, pharmacuetical etc… or stupid because you don’t call the President a liar when you haven’t read the bill!

That was quite an unspectacular unapology.
Marilynn, I LOVED your supposed quote.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… What is there that the GOP doesn’t understand? Having no health insurance threatens your life, having to pay through the nose for a private insurer without knowing, when the time comes, if it will honor the coverage, or having to go bankrupt after a catastrophic event or illness to you, your children or spouse, I see as a major roadblock on the road to happiness. Unless you are an insurance or Rx company, then you enjoy the sweet life, the freedom to pick and choose who you cover, how much you charge, and the happiness that comes from a big fat profit year after year.

DaveM said “Why has the Republican party become so viscious and hateful?”
Was it viscious and hateful when Dems booed GWB during his speach on social security reform? Or was it Okay then?
This time it was one guy, then it was every Dem in congress.
“When is it alright to shout at a president and call him a liar?”
In this country? Anytime I want too. It’s called the first amendment.

If someone doesn’t call Obama on his lies, we might as well just give up our Country, Constitution, and money to Obama…it is what he wants.

Talk about slippery slopes! So now it’s ok for my kid can publicly refer to a sitting president as a “liar”. How about Colonel Joe Wilson (National Guard) referring to his commander-in-chief as a “liar”? Perhaps his commanding officer will offer an opinion on this matter

Wilson and the other racists that disagree with common sense and change would NOT disagree if Obama were White.
Too bad for America – a bi-racial president who’s mother is now labeled “unwhite” and a “—-lover”, a Harvard Grad- the best this country can produce, is being bogged down by slave mentality White Men and women who HATE to admit A Black man is RIGHT. the President has to much intelligence to stoop as low as the white man

Rep. Wilson simply stated what a lot of us believe is true.

Thank you, Rep. Wilson, for taking the initiative to articulate what so many of us were thinking!
If any apologies are in order, let’s hear from Rep. Pelosi, and the Vice-president, whose collaborative reaction was suggestive of a couple of common street thugs, updating their hit list.
Politicians have been known to lie, and often.
The camera, on the other hand, is a starkly honest witness.

Well, WCCS, with “lifelong democrats” like YOU who needs republicans. Please, leave our party, we don’t need you.

Jolou1, more of us are thinking what jerks the right wing have become the past decade or so, and how they live for spreading lies, fear, demagoguery and anti-democracy one-party fantasies. Joe Wilson is a jerk, anyone who thinks what he did was OK is a jerk and them’s just facts. Jerk.

Everyone is so hung up on Mr. Wison’s actions. But where were you when Van Jones had to apologize for name calling republicans?? That is fair worse than being called a liar. And I think Obama is a liar. Where do you think he’s gonna get the money to cover the health care plan. You and your children for a very long time. Don’t let them cover your eyes, wake up and see the truth. I don’t feel that we should pay for immigrants, that’s not our job, send them back to their OWN country and let them handle their OWN problem. I don’t want to put my children in debt over 9.6 million immigrants, DO YOU????

DavidM asks:
“When is it alright to shout at a president and call him a liar?”
Anytime, actually.
That’s the way I understand the law of the land, anyway.
The President is still a public servant.
Anyone can call him any name they wish, as long as they haven’t threatened his safety.
Even Hillary Clinton would agree with me on that one. She certainly stood up for those who called former President Bush far worse!
So maybe, it’s just the name “liar,” that bothers you?
Do you still believe that he’ll do everything he’s promised, even though he’s already broken quite a few of those promises?
You might argue that nearly every politician makes promises…and rarely keeps them.
I certainly won’t disagree.
So, when politicians break those promises, does that make them “liars?”
That’s a question that every individual must answer for themselves.

As a non-american living in Norway, I have lost all the respect I had to the US for good after hearing the insult from Joe Wilson and the fact that there are americans who support his slur.

Wilson was completely disrespectful and the fact that someone had to tell him to apologize shows what kind of person he is. He ought to be ashamed of himself and step down. There will be no provision in the bill that would cover people who are undocumented. The only way to stop hospitals from treating these people is to make it against the law, which is inhumane. So, the President did not lie and again, Wilson should step down.

Wilson was wrong and broke House rules. It is one thing to be outspoken but to break house rules knowingly means this has to be dealt with. Wilson must apologize on the House floor. That is the way this is handled. Anything less means he was not sincere in his apology to the President.

Betty W. You are wrong. Illegals can be denied because they are not citizens of this country. The U.S. was closing businesses down for hiring illegals especially in Arizona. Wilson is right in his questions about illegals. Obama stated they are not included in the coverage. However, Wilson doesn’t believe him and neither do I.

Kettle2: Get a life. Obama got caught in a lie and the democratic commentors don’t like the fact it was a republican that did it. I agree with Wilson and his party asked him to apologize other than that he would not have. There are rights and wrongs. He should have waited until the end of the speech and right for saying the truth. You democratic commentors don’t like to hear the truth.

Michelle: Let me go on record first to state Obama is not black because he is half white. Read your history. Secondly, no one hates Obama they hate the lies about Health Care Reform. We should not give illegals anything in this country but send them back where they come from. We citizens work hard for our money and they want everything for nothing. Get a grip. I give credit to Wilson he had guts. You and your commentors lack it.

Richard — I suggest that you actually READ what you’ve quoted from the H.B. you’re citing.
All sect. 246 says is that illegals aren’t supposed to receive any extra government benefits, in order to help them pay for their new health care premiums.
Because, the plan is for “low income” citizens to get an extra stipend, to help them pay.
Extra welfare benefits, for instance.
Yet, as millions of illegals are already receiving welfare benefits…there will likely be many who will also receive the additional funds — this mainly due to the fact that no “citizenship requirement” is in the Bill, at all…and every time a member of Congress tries to add that requirement into the Bill, the leftist majority kills their proposal.
So, until you can cite a section stating that “citizenship” will be VERIFIED for each participant in Obama’s socialized health care
program — throwing the term “liar” around, even more times than Wilson did, doesn’t help make your argument.
Because, so far, the facts corroborate Wilson’s claim — not yours…and not Obama’s.
You might want to read what CNN reported on this subject, on Aug. 27.
The President might want to read it, as well.