Surrounded by colleagues from both sides of the aisle, repugnican house member, Joe Wilson of South Carolina, last night shouted, "You Lie!"
Was he responding to Sarah (being-uninformed-doesn't-stop-her-from-having-opinions) Palin, who blathered about "death panels" for senior citizens?
Was he responding to the repugnican governor of his state, Mark Sanford, who told his constituency that he was hiking the Appalachian trail when in fact he had flown to Argentina to, uh, tango with his paramour?
Was he responding to any of the "family values" guys who have been caught with their pants down--in bathroom stalls, in hotel rooms, on mic talking about spanking, in flagrante delicto--with women or men who were not, in fact, their partners?
Was he responding (belatedly) to mission accomplished? To weapons of mass destruction. To swift boat? To Read my lips: No new taxes? To I am not a crook?
Was he voicing his opinion of everything Dick ("I might run for President in 2012") Cheney has ever said?
Amazingly, no. He shouted it at President Obama--the first person in the Oval Office in eight years who has integrity and honesty and who actually makes sense. The topic was, of course, health care.
CNN and The Huffington Post (which called the representative "Old Yeller") have the stories.
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