I recently read an article about the House of Representatives voting to discipline Republican Joe Wilson for his outburst a week ago during a joint session of Congress, accusing President Obama of lying . The vote was 240-179. Despite Wilson's apology directly to the White House and his written statement expressing regret, the final decision of the House was to take disciplinary action towards the issue. The debate taking place now is whether or not the decision of the House was politically motivated or whether it was a proper and fair punishment. As you can imagine, many Republicans are calling the decision a "partisan stunt", while the Democrats are "stepping up their condemnation of Wilson's offense".
As far as the issue of disciplining Republican Joe Wilson goes, I agree with Wilson's statement that "there are far more important issues facing this nation than what we're addressing right now. President Obama graciously accepted my apology and the issue is over." I feel that there are way more important issues worth addressing right now with our country being in its current state. Although Wilson was definitely in the wrong for his outburst, the fact that he apologized and President Obama accepted his apology should be enough to put the situation at ease. I think that too big of a deal has been made out of the outburst and once again, you see Republicans and Democrats attacking each other over what should be considered a petty issue. This reminds me of Obama's school speech where a huge deal was made and much debate was created over something that should have been pretty neutral.
I feel that it is time to stop the debate over such petty issues and start talking more about ways to improve this country!
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Oh, it was absolutely a political stunt, these 'formal rebukes' always are. It's also extremely common. Both parties do it all the time. At this point, I'm resigned to the fact that it's an inevitable part of politics.
ReplyDeletePolitical stunt...Shame on the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteYou're correct, the whole thing is being outplayed and hyped up. The main reason for this in my opinion is partisanship. Whenever something about ideals come up it is automatically a phenomenon. This is because there are so many ways that the media can spin the situation. If the media outlet is liberal or conservative also makes a difference of what type of coverage the story will get. HHHHHHHH..... when did the press get so much power as to where they can tell us what to think and what to talk about?
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