[Update: Shocker! Majority of Dems vote NO to censure Stark who only apologized under Dem threat of censure passing] 2007: On the House Floor -Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cal.) called President George W Bush a ‘liar’ [video]
Posted by: velvethammer in UncategorizedSome sleuth. Mary Ann Ackers needs a seeing eye dog to be able to fully view ‘Behind the Scenes in Washington’. Or perhaps the problem is the myopic eyeglasses she wears.
Regardless of how mortified Miss Manners would be, this much we know about Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.): he may well have violated House rules Wednesday night when he yelled “You lie!” at President Obama.
The rules of decorum in the House explicitly state that a member cannot “call the president a ‘liar.’
Exhibit A
The Republicans are worried that we can’t pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don’t care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where you going to get that money. You gonna tell us lies like you’re telling us today? Is that how you’re going to fund the war. You don’t have enough money to fund the war or children. But you’re going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President’s amusement.
At the 1:55 mark:
But the President Bush’s statements about children’s health shouldn’t be taken any more seriously than his lies about the war in Iraq. The truth is that Bush just likes to blow things up in Iraq, in the United States, and in Congress.
Update: This is something I should of checked on when posting this yesterday. I’m sure I meant to, but time got away from me.
If “You lie” qualifies as “hateful rhetoric”, then Stark’s lunatic rant should qualify for a gold medal in the lympic event. Did Democrats, enjoying the first year of their majority, vote to censure Stark for calling the President a liar — or more egregiously, for claiming that Bush enjoyed seeing Americans and Iraqis die for his “amusement”? No, although Stark did get a warning from the presider after Republicans complained repeatedly about his insults.
If Pelosi wants to censure Wilson, then she has unfinished business from 2007 to attend first.
Hear! Hear!
I’d be remiss if I did not mention that after a Republican resolution to censure Stark failed, he did apologize. Though keep in mind… not until after the resolution failed.
Initially Stark refused to apologize but As DownWithTyranny reported in October 2007 he did so under Democrat threat of censure passing.
A Firedoglake reader called Stark’s office to complain about the apology. “The person answering the phone told me that Stark had no choice; Stark was told before the vote was taken that should he not apologize, the vote to censure would pass. According to his office, that is the only reason he apologized.”
WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Fortney “Pete” Stark of California apologized Tuesday for comments he made last week suggesting President Bush was sending troops to Iraq to get their “heads blown off for his amusement.”
The apology came after the House voted 196-173 with eight members voting present to table a resolution introduced by House Minority Leader John Boehner censuring Stark.
Click here to see how your representative voted.
Though the motion amounts to a failed vote, Stark addressed fellow lawmakers afterward to apologize.
Regardless of their sweeping Stark’s actions under the rug (only 5 Democrats voted against tabling the resolution), House Democrats playing by their own set of rules plan to sanction Joe Wilson this week. Wilson’s outburst was racist dontcha know… Seriously, I want to know. What ammunition would the left have if they could not use Obama’s color against his critics. What if he were white. What if indeed…
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Previously:
Screen Shot: Obama Disrupted Bush’s State of the Union Address in 2006
Hypocrisy! Democrats Boo Bush During 2005 State Of The Union Address [video]
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