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Rep. Steve King – The President ‘Threw the First Punch’ Against Joe Wilson

By | 09.16.09 | 8:35 am

At last night’s reception for the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” campaign, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) gave a spirited tribute to Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). Wilson, said King, was an “officer and a gentleman,” and if “amnesty” is stripped from the health care More…

Illegal Immigration Foes See Opportunity After Wilson’s Outburst

By | 09.16.09 | 6:00 am

This is the second year Alex Segura has trekked from Utah to Washington to lobby for stricter immigration laws. It isn’t getting easier with practice.

“It’s worse than ever,” Segura told TWI. He was in the Phoenix Park Hotel, across from Union Station and a short walk from Capitol Hill, More…

Rep. Jared Polis: Joe Wilson Boosted Democrats on Health Care Reform

By | 09.15.09 | 1:37 pm

Outside of a noon pro-immigration prayer vigil on Capitol Hill, where he called the immigration restriction group Federation for American Immigration Reform — on the Hill this week lobbying members of Congress — “obscure and extreme,” Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) told TWI that Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) outburst had hurt More…

Dems Filling Joe Wilson’s War Chest

By | 09.15.09 | 11:30 am

Instinctively, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was ready to move on after Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) apologized to the White House for his “You lie!” outburst during President Obama’s health reform speech to Congress last week. Political pressure from her own caucus, however, has More…

The Waiting Room

By | 09.14.09 | 5:50 pm

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.

Notwithstanding Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) infamous outburst, President Obama’s big speech Wednesday before both houses of Congress appears to have been a success — at least for now. According to several recent polls, support for health care reform More…

DeMint: ‘Joe Wilson Was Telling the Truth’

By | 09.12.09 | 5:56 pm

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the congressman who shouted “you lie” during President Obama’s health care address to Congress, was probably the biggest hero at today’s Tea Party rally in Washington. Signs reading “Joe Wilson for President” and “Thanks, Joe” were omnipresent, as were chants of “you lie.”

In my interview More…

The Waiting Room

By | 09.11.09 | 5:40 pm

Here’s a quick wrap-up of today’s health care news.

Reactions to President Obama’s speech to Congress on Wednesday continue to pour in. A Democratic National Committee internal memo shows that in a focus group, support for Obama’s health reform plan increased by nearly 40 percent among voters who More…

Poll: Joe Wilson Takes a Hit From ‘You Lie’

By | 09.11.09 | 2:38 pm

Confounding some of their early findings last night, the Public Policy Polling survey of South Carolina’s 2nd congressional district finds that voters have turned on Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), even though they split on whether Wilson was correct when he accused the president of lying about illegal immigrants’ rights More…

The Party of Wrong

By | 09.11.09 | 1:34 pm

Rep. Joe Wilson, the not-so-contrite South Carolina Republican who heckled President Obama on Capitol Hill Wednesday night, has said repeatedly that a report from the Congressional Research Service, the non-partisan research arm of the Library of Congress, vindicates his claims that the Democrats’ health reform strategy would cover More…

Joe Wilson’s Fundraising

By | 09.11.09 | 12:45 pm

He’s been advertising on the email lists of The Washington Times and Townhall.com, among other places, and claims to have raked in $200,000 so far. Here’s the pitch from one of the emails: