Yes, it was uncivil, and could possibly have backfired by stimulating a twinge of sympathy for the president, and it could conceivably set a bad precedent; but, hey, Mr. Combusta-pants and his ilk are all about speaking truth to power, right?
Jennifer Rubin has a good short take on the speech.
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Hey, look at the bright side: someone might have broken his cane tonight.
ReplyDeleteTW: nervi. Yes, I bet Obama is really nervous.
Barack Obama is a telemarketer who has run off the end of his scripted pitch and has nothing new to say to the skeptical old lady on the other end of the phone. All he can do is repeat himself to less and less effect.
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I agree Wilson broke the rules of decorum. Perhaps he wouldn't have felt so compelled if this Congress and this administration weren't riding roughshod over everything and everybody that make America what is is, and telling us all to shut up while they're doing it.
ReplyDeleteBut,but,but...truth to power is not valid anymore, why wasn't I informed? I guess if you're not the majority leader of the Senate you can't call the president a liar.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see the speech so I will apologize in advance.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure he held up a copy of "My Plan" and contrasted that with HR 3200.
Addendum begins about....now. The White House just released a report showing that the "Stimulus Plan" created or saved in excess of one million jobs. They did warn that these estimates were preliminary and hard to really quantify(!) because they are based upon "models".
That picture of "Thumper" laughing on his back on that pond in "Bambi" should be inserted here.
1) For the first fifty or so years of its history, such behaviour was not unheard of on the floor of the House and the Senate. The British Parliamentary tradition exerted quite an influence. It rarely was directed against sitting Presidents because they hardly ever addressed either of them in person [One of the main reasons for this was the lesson learned by George Washington and his successors after Washington went before the Senate on, I believe, one of the Indian treaties, and was heckled by a few Senators.]. The protocol on this kind of behaviour now in place evolved over time and grew stronger as the Presidency did. For many decades, the Congress has shirked their duty and excessively deferred to the Executive on too many matters [and conversely has exercised too much authority in foreign affairs which The Constitution pretty much leaves the conduct of in the hands of the Executive]. Constitutional republics should be a messy business and not courtly. Deference has it limits, and Rep. Wilson had not reached one.
ReplyDeleteMany are touting him as a hero for what he did. I would too if he had not apologized. A typical Republican, he withered as he contemplated the calumnies that would descend upon his head from the Leftists in the Congress and the MSM. One has to wonder if are there any Republicans who have a pair? It seems the only one who does is a woman: Sarah Palin.
2) Mr. Combusta-pants...man, that's a great one Paco.
Quoted from and linked to at:
http://www.thecampofthesaints.com/2009.09.06_arch.html#1252593923065
That's why we have but one "Speech from the Throne" at the start of each Parliamentary Session.
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The Dems certainly weren't shy about "violating the rules of decorum" when GW Bush addressed a joint session, the 2005 SOTU in particular: there were multiple incidents of shouting and booing from the Democrat side of the aisle.
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You're right, Spiny. Tit for tat, I say.
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