I wonder when we will return to a period of greater civility and common decency in both our own local public political meetings as also in our own House of Representatives. Of course, I am referring to the outbreak of a Congressman Joseph Wilson, R-SC., Na screamed aloud, "you lie ', when President Obama denied (accurately) that illegal immigrants are covered under its proposal to health care.
In a bipartisan spirit, both democratic and republican lawmakers attending the nationally televised speech, seen in all the local channels with Dish Network, Wednesday night denounced the comments by by Wilson, the 5th term Congressman from South Carolina. Immediately, after its strong outburst, the President, Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi condescendingly all glared in the direction of Wilson sitting between his colleagues from his home state. Democrats in the house shouted "shame on you" while his own republican brethren even booed the comment. After all, Joe Wison broke strict etiquette the bedroom by yelling it directly to the President of the United States as he addressed a joint session of Congress.
Shortly after the speech ended, Wilson, sense of more than a little heat from his fellow members, called the White House and apologize to Rahm Emmanuel, the president chief of staff. Later, it was also reported This is done so at the request of the GOP's leadership. The very next day, the website and congressional phone lines were knocked out due to heavy volume, and the His Democratic opponent in 2010, Rob Miller, received $ 400,000 in campaign donations over a period of 24 hours.
"As a former Marine, I was always trained to respect the chain of command, "Miller said." I was surprised that Congressman Wilson is disrespect the major-in-chief on national television. His actions really exemplify everything wrong with Washington. Shouting and name-calling no place when we are dealing with such important issues. "
But the most resistant opponents reform plan, Wilson emerges as something of a hero. His Facebook page registered 1,200 comments, many of them is strong support in his heat and only criticizing him for Backing down. A Facebook user named Bugs wrote, "We need to find the antidote Obama Kool-aid. To go, Joe! "
Is this the kind of behavior we are willing to accept from from our elected officials in Washington or our state home, cities, and towns? I doubt it.
If the type of behavior is unacceptable and becoming more common in the halls of our government institutions, then we can hardly expect the citizens of our country to respect the laws and that its role is to enforce them. For someone like of Mr Wilson call the president a liar on the floor of the house, the damage can be done long after the last sound of your health and applause for the president died out on Wednesday night.
These types of antics seem to have stemmed out of the poor by the behavior of some of the public meetings held town for a discussion of national health care reform bill proposed. All opponents of the president's plan will do is scream, holler, and shout down that the speakers that duly elected representatives and Senators, and they want to create a mess out of control for readers evening news. They would resort to calling names and do they disrupt the meeting to make uncontrollable a picture as possible for television. To many long-time political observers, they saw as a planned and organized effort to undermine health care reform as they saw the meeting with the town hall last summer.
A conservative republican, Joe Wilson, enter his comment was 'inappropriate and regrettable', and he was sorry for the president, but He is still not take it back. He said it. It's out there, and everyone in the house chamber and in their own home watching the speech that night heard it. After all, if our elected officials do not conduct business activities in the state in a civil, respectable way, then they'd better be ready to see a further breakdown in the civility of its citizens. In future, all who have a run-in with the law and decides to sport his rudeness for those with power have to do is think of congressmen from South Carolina called the president a liar, and got away with it. Or is he?
House majority whip Jim Clyburn, a Democrat who is a congressional district abuts Wilson's, said he was not satisfied with his fellow South Carolinian's apology to the White House. Clyburn, the highest ranking African-American in Congress, Wilson threatened with an official sanctioning House unless he was given an apology to his fellow lawmakers. "Either he can deal with it or the Council can deal with it," Clyburn told reporters. "If he asks for apologize to members of the House, and then I think a resolution will probably be introduced, and we'll go from there. "
Clyburn and other Democratic House leaders have a range of options, from a resolution of disapproval of a measure expression of the criticism of Wilson.
Unfortunately, If the house decide to take this path, we can not heard the last from Joe Wilson. And he can not by name-calling.
BRIAN MAES PRODUCING THE JESSICA PROUTY BAND AT SPIRIT HOUSE RECORDS
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