Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., Yells 'You Lie' at Obama During Presidential Address

photo-rep-jopre-wiprlson Echoing the GOP’s spittle-spewing astroturfed town-hall hissy fits this summer, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., heckled Pres. Obama during his address to a joint session of Congress tonight.

“You lie,” Wilson yelled after Obama asserted that reform proposals do not include covering non-citizens.

Could be that Wilson was in a celebratory mood. Earlier today, his son Alan announced he is running for attorney general of South Carolina.

As he returned from his August vacation, Wilson told the State newspaper that he received standing ovations at town hall meetings when he stated his opposition to health-insurance reform:

U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, a Republican who lives in Springdale, also spoke to the biggest crowds of his political career in town hall meetings dominated by health care — 1,700 people at Keenan High School in Columbia, 1,500 at Lexington High School, 1,200 at Hilton Head High School.

“Ninety-five percent of the people supported my position of promoting health insurance reform, but not a government takeover,” Wilson said. “I received standing ovations when (the meetings) concluded.”

Wilson, Rep. Gresham Barrett, a Republican from the Upstate, and Rep. Henry Brown of Charleston are among 28 co-sponsors of the Empowering Patients First Act, one of the main GOP alternatives to the House Democratic plan.

Among its reforms, the bill makes individuals’ premiums tax deductible, gives states incentives to create high-risk insurance pools, allows people to shop across state lines and establishes administrative “health courts” in states to hear medical malpractice claims.

From Wilson’s Wikipedia page:

In September 2002, during a debate on the possibility of going to war in Iraq, Wilson called Congressman Bob Filner “viscerally anti-American” and claimed that he had a “hatred of America” after Filner suggested the United States supplied chemical and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein. Wilson said later that he didn’t intend to insult Filner.

Wilson is a staunch advocate of a federal prohibition of online poker.

Joe Wilson represents South Carolina’s 2nd District, which ranges from Columbia in the center of the state to Hilton Head Island on the coast.

UPDATE: As of this morning (Sept. 10), Democratic fundraising group ActBlue has raised $69,000 on behalf of Wilson’s opponent, Rob Miller. Within the first two hours of Obama’s speech last night outraged voters had contributed $25,000 to ActBlue.

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Rep. Joe, you are my HERO.

You shouted it like it really IS.

I thank God for your courage of conviction. We need more legislators like you.

We want to contribute to your campaign.

Please send info so we may.

Thanks, M BIDDY and Hubby

Thanks for shouting out what so many of us Americans feel so deeply about. You were correct.
I remember hearing Obama when he was campaigning say he was going to grant amnesty to all aliens in our country. So, even if it isn’t in the bill (but it is), he plans to make them Americans so they will be covered.

I pray for our country’s survival monitarily and spiritually. Thanks for leading out!

God bless you.

We want to send a contribution. How do we do that?

I have typed my message twice and it keeps not being sent. I’ll try again another time.
Mary Lee who wants to send a contribution to keep you in service of our country.

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September 15, 2009 at 6:05 am

Thanks for trying so hard to leave a comment, Mary. You’re exactly the sort of person who makes it possible for people like Joe Wilson to ruin this once-great country. Please send a donation to ActBlue.

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Would be good to put a town or state with the names on this forum. I share a name with this Poster – and – Absolutely do NOT share her views. A google search of my name brings this up. I Love our President – and – our Country. Any actions to disparage him, undermine or weaken are Unpatriotic and especially Stupid given the fact that we might FINALLY have a chance to be The United States of America that we once were.

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