CIVILITY & DECORUM

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The House of Representatives voted to censure Representative Joe Wilson for shouting, “You lie!” during Obama’s rambling speech to the joint session of Congress. The excuse given was that “civility and decorum” must be maintained in the House.

Aside from the fact that Representative Wilson was only saying out loud what many of us were shouting at our TV screens, one wonders why the Democrat majority in the House decided this particular bit of speech should be condemned, when so many other outrageous statements have gone unremarked. Here are a some examples.

Nancy Pelosi:

• "I believe that the president's leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers."

• "Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he's not a leader. He's a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon.''

• “I think the time has come to speak very frankly about the lack of leadership in the White House, the lack of judgment.”

• “The president of the United States [is] a total failure."

Harry Reid:

• “[Bush is] dangerously incompetent".

• “I really do believe President Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had.”

• “I think this guy [President Bush] is a loser.”

• “President Bush is a liar. He betrayed Nevada and he betrayed the country.”

These are examples of the kind of “civility and decorum” the Democrat leadership practiced while George W. Bush was president.

Where was their outrage then? Where were their calls for civility and decorum? Have either Pelosi or Reid ever apologized? Were they ever censured by their colleagues?

The House’s censure of Representative Joe Wilson is just one more example of the left’s inconsistency and outrageous double-standards.

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