Comments on: So much for southern hospitality

By: Mike Bailey

Mike Bailey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:52:11 +0000

So we’re all clear on this: Wilson’s “You lie!” comment was in response to Obama’s statement that illegal aliens would not be covered under the reform proposal. Here’s the deal, courtesy of Factcheck.org:

Claim: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

False. That’s simply not what the bill says at all. This page includes “SEC. 152. PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION IN HEALTH CARE,” which says that “[e]xcept as otherwise explicitly permitted by this Act and by subsequent regulations consistent with this Act, all health care and related services (including insurance coverage and public health activities) covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services.” However, the bill does explicitly say that illegal immigrants can’t get any government money to pay for health care. Page 143 states: “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.” And as we’ve said before, current law prohibits illegal immigrants from participating in government health care programs.

So, Rob number two, you are in error.

You’re also kind of proving my point with the “Obamasiah” crack that people can’t see fit to elevate the tone of the debate. So thanks for that much, I guess…

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:35:23 +0000

The only part of the Obamasiah’s reading of the teleprompter that I believed was the audience participation part… “You Lie!”

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:43:26 +0000

Just for the record: Rep. Wilson’s accusation of “you lie” was, itself, a lie.

Oh, the bitter irony….

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:34:51 +0000

“think on some level we must have not only penetrated the bottom of the barrel, we started digging to China when Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina last night shouted out “You lie!” at Barack Obama”

Ugh, I couldn’t agree more! How embarrassing that someone in the Senate stoops to the average citizens behavior. Don’t we hold these people to a higher standard of behavior? Joe Wilson should be mortified and ashamed about his behavior.