Joe Wilson – Resolution of Disapproval
The Patriot Flag I am flying is the 9 Bar Son’s of Liberty, Here’s why…
Sons of Liberty
The Politico: 6:05pm 9/15/2009:
House Democrats dealt South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson a formal rebuke Wednesday, taking the rare step of passing a resolution of disapproval for his famous “you lie!” outburst last week in the House chamber. The vote was 240-179, falling almost exclusively along party lines.
While Democrats said they were defending the rules of the House and enforcing the traditional decorum of the chamber, Republicans mounted a fierce attack on the resolution, saying it was a waste of time after Wilson had duly apologized to President Barack Obama for his outburst during a joint address to Congress. While a resolution of disapproval is little more than a slap on the wrist, a formal roll call vote like this – permanently entered into the Congressional Record – is extremely rare.
Seven Republicans voted to Disapprove Wilson:
- Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana … email link here
- Rep. Joanne Emerson of Missouri… email link here
- Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona … email link here
- Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina … email link here
- Rep. Tom Petri of Wisconsi … email link here
- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California … email link here
- Rep. South Carolinian Bob Inglis … email link here
Write them and let them know how you feel. Notice the difficulty at getting at Jeff Flake‘s email, he must get a lot of “cranky emails” from “the angry mob!” When you try to write Inglis you get this error message:
- Can not open /sections/contact/outside_mail.htm Your request could not be processed because of the above error. Nothing has been saved. Please notify the manager of this web site that a problem was encountered. (my guess, if you aren’t in his zip code, you don’t count!)
AMAZING how difficult it is to write “representatives” of the people!
But 12 Democrats voted no on the resolution: Michael Arcuri of New York, Bill Delahunt of Massachusetts, Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, Maurice Hinchey of New York, Paul Hodes of New Hampshire, Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Dan Maffei of New York, Eric Massa of New York, James McDermott of Washington, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, Gene Taylor of Mississippi and Harry Teague of Arizona.
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The fallout: (To be continued as it breaks!)
