Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday that he will not apologize on the House floor for his outburst during President Obama’s health care address, even though Democratic leaders have threatened to formally discipline him if he does not.
Wilson noted that he already apologized directly to the White House after shouting, “You lie,” to the president during his Wednesday address to a joint session of Congress. The outburst triggered a political firestorm, but Wilson told “FOX News Sunday” that Democrats are just “playing politics” by trying to drag out the issue and force another apology.
“I’ve apologized one time. The apology was accepted by the president, the vice president. … I am not apologizing again,” he told “FOX News Sunday.” ”I believe that is sufficient.”
Wilson said he would “never do something like that again,” but continued to defend himself.
The South Carolina Republican on Wednesday accused the president of lying for claiming his health care reform plan would not cover illegal immigrants.
“I believe in the truth. What I heard was not true,” Wilson explained Sunday. “I believe (Obama) was misstating the facts.”
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Joe is right. No apologies other than the one he has already made and “which has” been accepted by the President.
It’s over and if there is a vote tomorrow in the House all should be aware of the silencing of free speech as we in Canada are all to familiar with.
What Joe needs to do right now is prepare a speech to rebut the motion. I suspect he has already done that and as “Dirty Harry” was known to say “Well, do ya punk?”
He apologized. The President accepted. Why would it need to go any further than that?
Joe did the ‘unthinkable’ he showed the Emperor (Czar, ‘chosen one’, The 0, …) without his clothes – the Demos want to distroy him – demanding another apology is just the first step.