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November 30th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Rep. Wilson Was Right; Obama DID Lie

Turns out Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) told the truth when he yelled “You lie” after President Obama said illegal immigrants would not be covered under the health care reform bill. A report by the Washington Times shows that both the House and Senate versions of the legislation fail to prohibit illegal immigrants from getting taxpayer-funded health coverage.

The House bill mandates, and the Senate bill strongly encourages, businesses to extend health care coverage to all employees. But the bills do not have exemptions to screen out illegal immigrants, who usually obtain jobs by using false identities and are indistinguishable from legal workers.

A rough estimate by the Center for Immigration Studies suggests that the practical effect of the mandates would be that about 1 million illegal immigrants could obtain health insurance coverage through their employers.

Democrats who wrote the House bill said that employer coverage for illegal immigrants is not intentional, but rather the outcome of people breaking the law.

Well, it may not be intentional, but it certainly logically follows. The failure of Democrats to address this loophole (and others like it) is the reason the health care “reform” will become seemingly uncontrollable. Of course, no social welfare program the government creates is truly uncontrollable, so long as there is diligent enforcement of means testing. But then, what’s the point of having universal health care if everybody (citizen or not) isn’t in the same system?

September 15th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
House Formally/Informally Reprimands Rep. Wilson
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The vote, as one would expect, was mostly a party-line vote (240-179).  Seven Republicans voted for the resolution while twelve Democrats voted against “censuring” Wilson.  Five members voted present (Engel, Foster, Frank, Shea-Porter and Skelton).

Here is the full roll call.

September 15th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Vote to Sanction Wilson
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House Democrats apparently aren’t accepting Representative Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) apology for his outburst last week.  Today, House Democratic leaders will move forward with a “Resolution of Disapproval” for Wilson’s “You Lie” statement.

Wilson recently pledged, “I won’t be offering any more apologies.”

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September 12th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Censuring Joe Wilson
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Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plan to pass a resolution censuring Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) for saying “you lie” during the President’s ObamaCare live infomercial Wednesday night, and refusing to apologize on the floor of the House, even though he has apologized to the President.

We assume that this censure will follow that of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for calling Town Hall protesters “Nazis” and that of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for saying that the CIA lies to Congress all the time.

Too bad there won’t be enough time left that day to deal with the people’s business.  How large is the deficit now?