*booed the President down.

Nuff said.

Regards,
Peter H.

I would go further and point out that POTUS is nothing more than a Chicago hoodlum… and he does not deserve any respect…. the office of POTUS deserves respect…. but he does not…..

Have you ever watched British Parliament? Canadian Parliament?? Australian Parliament???

Part of why our Congress is so boring (and why many Congressmen fall asleep) is b/c they never engage in truly vigorous debate.

For a country that prides itself on vigorous public debate, I find this ironic…

Maybe some of the most despicable members of the House & Senate couldn’t get away with their lies, hypocrisy & vitriol, if we did have more open sessions….

I watched the House of Commons where, on a regular basis, PM Blair was openly boo’d, yelled at, etc.

What’s not to like? It’s not a matter of ‘civility’ or being ‘boorish’, but a requirement for a healthy and enduring democracy.

When he said what millions of Americans were saying or thinking, it seems to me that he was representing the people.

I’m with Ann Althouse on this one. Reprimand Wilson, the Democrats, as well as the people who waste valuable time by making stupid standing ovations.

Speaking of Prejean, I’m sure that this has been said before, many times by far more talented writers: Obambi shares her views. Why aren’t liberal gays going after his jugular?

As a Congressman, Wilson’s first and foremost responsibilities are to his constituents and the Constitution he swore to uphold.

Nowhere does the Constitution call for him to treat the president with fawning deference. That’s merely a house rule. In fact, the constitutional role of Congress is not to respect the president, its to check and balance him.

The biggest breach of precedent here is not Wilson’s outburst, but Obama’s speech. I am unaware of any president, standing before congress and telling so many blatant lies. When has any president stood there before congress and the American people and felt so comfortable telling so many blatant lies before? Perhaps someone can point that out to me.

So what DO you do when a president believes he can stand before the nation and lie with impunity because his party controls congress and the press is in his pocket? Most of the 30 million who watched the speech will not be around to hear your criticism, assuming the press actually allowed any critical voices to be heard.

Why is it OK for congress to interrupt the president with agreeing cheers of approval but it is not OK to show that you disagree?

Which is more important? House rules? Or keeping the president in check?

Congressman Wilson’s outburst, while unprecedented was after all just a reaction to a speech that was itself unprecedented in its rank dishonesty.

Yes, Congress should show respect to the office, but the man who holds that office also has a duty to show more respect to the American people.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/09/representative-thaddeus-mccotter.html

On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, the most brutal single attack on the nation in our history, we’re debating whether the GOP has a civility problem?! This, because one GOP congressman said “You lie” when the president spoke about a provision he himself had just removed from the bill Congress had last seen? Have we failed to notice that the president himself had just called the words of “prominent politicians” “a lie, plain and simple”? Have we failed to notice that his entire “something-for-nothing” scheme simply doesn’t add up, financially, which makes it one grand lie? Have we forgotten that Senator Harry Reid said “President Bush is a liar” – and never apologized for it? Have we forgotten the vicious, unrelenting Democratic attacks on Bush throughout his presidency, or on Sarah Palin, extending even to her children? Or the gratuitous attacks on Republican judicial nominees, starting with Robert Bork, and running through Samuel Alito, to a point at which Mrs. Alito had to leave the hearing room in tears? Have we lost all perspective? Or is the question before us and this debate just one more example of politics as usual here in Washington?

Exactly.

And why isn’t Nancy Pelosi going to censure Charlie Rangel? Is tax evasion less of a big deal to the evil left than insolence?