According to Yahoo News Congressman Joe Wilson has been formally rebuked by the House of Representatives for his "You lie" comment during the President's speech on healthcare. Politico.com points out that it is much easier for the Democrats to talk about Joe Wilson than to actually talk about the issues involved in the healthcare debate.
Mr. Wilson needed to exercise more self control during the President's speech, but it is interesting to note that since that outburst, there have been attempts to fix the loophole in the healthcare bill that allows illegal immigrants to be covered. Either the President was misinformed, or he was lying.
There is another side of this. During his eight years as President, George Bush was routinely treated rudely by Congress. There was booing at his State of the Union addresses, and he was called "Hitler" and other things routinely. If I thought that the censure of Joe Wilson would mean that the next Republican President would be treated with decorum by the Congress, I would support it. But I don't. I also think serial apologies are dumb. Congressman Wilson apologized to the President and that apology was accepted. At that point Nancy Pelosi stated that the incident was over. Evidently someone convinced her that there was political gain in keeping the issue alive. I'm not sure most Americans agree with that idea.
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