CSP: We never did that to President Bush
September 14, 2009The CSP message machine once again had another doozy this past weekend,that once again shows the hypocrisy of Carol Shea Porter. According to Fosters, CSP made the following remarks to the Strafford County Democrats this past weekend:
Shea-Porter expressed disgust over how some Republicans acted during Obama’s health care speech to Congress last Wednesday, where some could be heard booing and South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson yelled “you lie!” after the president said health care legislation would not provide free coverage for illegal immigrants.
“They were behaving in a way we never behave,” she said.
Shea-Porter said there were many times the party disagreed with President George W. Bush, but never booed him.
“We sat there quietly and politely because that’s what we owe the President of the United States,” she said.
While Rep. Wilson’s outburst was at the wrong place, wrong time, and did nothing to advance the debate, Democrats and especially Carol Shea-Porter are the last ones to be able to cry foul. It was Carol Shea-Porter herself who was removed from an event with President Bush for disrupting an event and bird dogged Jeb Bradley for over a year at his town hall meetings. The fact that Democrats “sat their quietly” is also a misnomer. In at least one State of the Union Address the Democrats in the chamber booed President Bush during his remarks.
The hypocrisy of CSP on this one is simply amazing, especially when she spent over a year disrupting events and being forcibly removed, something she once bragged about when she still believed in town hall meetings.
Grant Bosse
Sep 14, 2009
When she does it, it’s not being rude. It’s “Speaking Truth to Power”.
More than the booing, which Democrats certainly did to President Bush, I was always struck by their cheering their own inaction on Social Security, as if political cowardice was something to celebrate.
I’m also amazed at that Emily Post has taken over the modern left. Suddenly, they’re all about politeness and courtesy instead of giant puppets and burning effigies. It’s almost like they want to change the rules now that they are in power.
Vis Unita Fortior
Sep 14, 2009
Yeah, if CSP was referring to herself and her partisans in general, rather than about the Democrats in Congress, that’s pretty silly. (And it seems unlikely to me that it would even be true of the Congress. We don’t have fist fights anymore the way places like the Taiwanese Yuan do but come on, they’re not really that dignified.)
Vis Unita Fortior
Sep 14, 2009
You know what just occurred to me… I know there’s lots more booing and rowdiness in the U.K. Parliament but I wonder if shouting “You lie!” would happen there. But even if that doesn’t happen, I would think it’s probably because they have stronger libel / defamation laws there.
Matt Suermann
Sep 14, 2009
VUF–Good thought about Parliament. I have heard of one back bencher that heckles the Queen’s representative when he comes in for the State Opening. From what I recall it isn’t always the nicest statement towards the Crown.
I personally like the Robin Williams sketch where he said the British Parliament like our Congress but with a 2 drink minimum.
Fergus Cullen
Sep 14, 2009
One diff between Prime Minister’s Questions and an address by the President is that the Prime Minister is a fellow Member of Parliament. It’s one thing to give a colleague a hard time, something else to argue with someone from another branch of government who is a guest in your chamber. Nonetheless, CSP, a professional protester, is hardly the right person to be carrying that message. At least Cindy Sheehan has the courage of her convictions and is willing to criticize the president for continuing and expanding Bush administration policy in Iraq and Afgahnistan. CSP seems to have set her principles aside.