From last night’s premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film,” here’s Jim Martin of the 60 Plus Association — an industry-funded group bankrolling ads to turn senior citizens against the Democratic health care reform bills — having a friendly chat with Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.). Martin on the left, Wilson More…
Getting into Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” meant walking through a steady rain into the Ronald Reagan building, a sprawling downtown trade and convention center where the economic conservative group FreedomWorks, which helped organize a number of Tea Party protests, had rented a foyer and More…
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…
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…
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…
If there was any question that Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) was enjoying his newfound celebrity, he was back on Sean Hannity’s syndicated radio show today — his second consecutive appearance. Wilson profusely thanked Hannity for asking his listeners to support him.
“They have named me — the Washington Democrats, MoveOn.org More…
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…
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…
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…
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:
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