One apology is enough, a digging-in-his-heels Rep. Joe Wilson said Sunday, challenging Democratic leaders who want him to say on the House floor that he’s sorry for yelling “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s health care speech to Congress.
The leadership plans to propose a resolution of disapproval this week if the South Carolina Republican doesn’t publicly apologize to Congress. Such a measure would put lawmakers on the record as condemning those two words, uttered during last Wednesday’s prime-time speech, that have become a fundraising boon for the defiant Wilson and his Democratic challenger.
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“I am not going to apologize again. I apologized to the president on Wednesday night. I was advised then that, ‘Thank you, now let’s get on to a civil discussion of the issues,'” Wilson said. “I’ve apologized one time. The apology was accepted by the president, by the vice president, who I know. I am not apologizing again.”
Meanwhile, a letter to the editor published in the Boston Globe makes the ridiculous assertion that Wilson was a security threat, and that the Secret Service should have frisked him:
Cameras caught [Wilson] rising and shaking a finger at the president. If that hand had held anything resembling a weapon, he should have been taken down by the Secret Service immediately. At the very least he should have been removed from the scene and searched. Even a congressman should be subject to basic security considerations.
Wilson’s outburst was unprecedented and probably inappropriate, but let’s avoid stepping into drama queen territory, shall we?
