Thursday, September 17, 2009

Joe Wilson was right when he yelled "You Lie"

Oh, the dangers of conservatives relying on their failed memories.

Earlier in his speech, Obama had cited very specific instances of false misrepresentations about the health care bill such as death panels and pulling the plug on granny which he denounced as lies, which they are.

He did not reference that to anyone in the Congress.

The comment he made that precipitated Wilson’s racist outburst was that the Bill would not cover illegals, at which point the unruly racist yelled out, “You lie.”

Which was, in fact, the real lie.

Since the Bill explicitly states that illegals are not covered (I have cited the specific reference and copied the section several times, want it again?)

One can reasonably debate the adequacy of enforcement mechanisms (saying there are none when we have existing mechanisms in place and don’t need to keep adding new bureaucracies to reinvent the wheel), but to say to someone “You lie” for saying that the proposed Bill does not cover something that it expressly forbids is not only rude, but is A LIE.

Democrats NEVER yelled “you lie” to Bush on any of the numerous occasions when he actually did.

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