Louisville Courier Journal Editorial: "Breach Of Decorum." I *SIGH*.
Breach of decorum
We hope America got a good look at — and listen to — elected Republican leaders during President Obama's speech to the joint session of Congress. If there were any doubt before the spectacle they made of themselves, there was little left afterward that the Grand Old Party needs to search for a new name.
There is nothing grand about it anymore.
Yes, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., broke new, fetid ground in the Congress when he shouted “You lie!” during the President's speech, but his was only the most glaring example of the boorishness displayed by some Republican officials. A Washington Post reporter in the chamber wrote of boos, hisses, grumbles and guffaws that may have eluded the audience at home. However, we were able to see some of them holding signs or sheaves of paper, fairly waggling them in the air during the historic address.
Mr. Wilson, who has received hefty campaign contributions from health care industries and professionals, apologized for his interruption in a phone call to the White House. And Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader and Republican “elder statesman” from Kentucky, offered this milquetoast response to the evening's events: “I think we ought to treat the President with respect and anything other than that is not appropriate.”
Too little, too late.
They have trashed the health care debate with scare tactics, untruths and stonewall obstinacy. In doing so, they have also trashed themselves. They have become the rabble they rouse.
The old GOP? RIP.
We hope America got a good look at — and listen to — elected Republican leaders during President Obama's speech to the joint session of Congress. If there were any doubt before the spectacle they made of themselves, there was little left afterward that the Grand Old Party needs to search for a new name.
There is nothing grand about it anymore.
Yes, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., broke new, fetid ground in the Congress when he shouted “You lie!” during the President's speech, but his was only the most glaring example of the boorishness displayed by some Republican officials. A Washington Post reporter in the chamber wrote of boos, hisses, grumbles and guffaws that may have eluded the audience at home. However, we were able to see some of them holding signs or sheaves of paper, fairly waggling them in the air during the historic address.
Mr. Wilson, who has received hefty campaign contributions from health care industries and professionals, apologized for his interruption in a phone call to the White House. And Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader and Republican “elder statesman” from Kentucky, offered this milquetoast response to the evening's events: “I think we ought to treat the President with respect and anything other than that is not appropriate.”
Too little, too late.
They have trashed the health care debate with scare tactics, untruths and stonewall obstinacy. In doing so, they have also trashed themselves. They have become the rabble they rouse.
The old GOP? RIP.
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