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House Reprimands Joe Wilson For 'You Lie!' Outburst
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyThe House voted 240 to 179 Tuesday afternoon to formally reprimand Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for yelling "You lie!" at President Obama during his health care address to a joint session of Congress last week. A total of 233 Democrats and seven Republicans voted in favor of the measure, while 12 Democrats and 167 Republicans opposed it. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina introduced the resolution of disapproval, which said Wilson's conduct was "a breach of decorum and degraded the proceedings of the joint session." Although the House ...
Republican Congressman Joe Wilson Yells, 'You Lie!' During Obama Speech
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Joe Wilson, a South Carolina Republican, yelled "You lie!" after President Obama told a joint session of Congress that illegal immigrants would not be covered by his health care plan. The outburst came as Obama addressed what he called "bogus claims" about health care reform. He called the idea of so-called death panels "a lie, plain and simple," and said that his reform plan would not apply to people who are in the country illegally, as some say it will. At that point, a voice in the back of the House chamber could clearly be heard yelling, "You lie! You lie!" Obama responded, "It's not ...
Obama's Health Care Call to Action Reminds Us How He Got Elected and Why
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyFor months we've known quite a bit about what President Obama wants in a health reform bill. What we were in danger of forgetting was that he can be an inspirational and forceful leader. He reminded us Wednesday night with his moral, economic and political call to arms on health care. Veering from poetry to prose and back again, sometimes stern, sometimes earnest, always determined, Obama took ownership of what he called "my plan" and his place in nearly 100 years of presidential striving for reform. He ended with a meditation on the late Ted Kennedy's "large-heartedness" in pursuing a ...
Democrats in Disarray as Obama Heads for the Hill
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAs the president prepares to drive the 16 blocks from the White House to Capitol Hill tonight, it seems only fair to prepare him for what awaits: Democrats in disarray, Republicans "feeling the wind at our back," and a nation disoriented after months of promises that change is coming, only to find that it might not be the change they thought they believed in. The 24 hours before Obama's joint address to Congress on health care have seen lawmakers jockeying for position, dueling Capitol Hill press conferences, confusion, and conflicting statements -- and that's just among the Democrats. For ...
Obama Needs to 'Man Up' on Abortion in Health Care Speech, Critic Says
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAt least that's the gauntlet thrown down by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, who taunts the president ahead of Obama's make-or-break health care speech to Congress -- and stretches a few truths about Obama's positions."Will President Obama mention abortion tonight? Not a chance," Donohue, a leader of the church's conservative opposition to Obama, declares in a press release. "Abortion is perhaps the most divisive moral issue in America, and because the president wants to force the taxpayers to pay for abortion (it would be covered in the public plan), he is not going to go near it.""The ...
Obama's Health Care Speech: His Last, Best Hope
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailySixteen years ago this month, a youthful Democratic president with a job-approval rating hovering around 50 percent stood before Congress to make an impassioned plea for health care reform. As Bill Clinton mounted the rostrum and looked out over the House chamber, he discovered to his horror that a seven-month-old speech on the economy was whirling through the teleprompter instead of the health care text. For the next seven minutes, until the correct floppy disk was inserted into the teleprompter, Clinton confidently vamped before Congress and the nation as if all were going rhetorically ...
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