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Photograph of Rep. Joe Wilson by Melina Mara (Washington Post/AP)
Under section 370 of the House Rules and Manual it has been held that a Member could:• refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”
• refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”
• refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to the country.”
• refer to unnamed officials as “our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.”Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:
• call the President a “liar.”
• call the President a “hypocrite.”
• describe the President’s veto of a bill as “cowardly.”
• charge that the President has been “intellectually dishonest.”
• refer to the President as “giving aid and comfort to the enemy.”
• refer to alleged “sexual misconduct on the President’s part.”
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Wilson's comment was aimed at a black man elected president. There is a segment of the population that will never fully accept Barack Obama.
And it's called South Carolina.
quit playing the race card, nitwit.
Do you think he was right to shout out what he did? Do you think he would have shouted it at a real liar, like 41? The guy is a first class bigot and he proved it to the whole country. You're the nitwit.
I understand the need for proper conduct on the floor, but the idea of trying to parse out which words and phrases are permitted and which are not is ludicrous.
I still don't believe it's serious. I mean, seriously??
Hypocritical nitwits.
"Judicial pork"? Is that when the Supreme Court rules in favor of itself?
I dare anyone to accuse the previous President of intellectual anything.