Gregory Kane: Rep. Wilson is my kind of guy

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Leave it to our esteemed House of Representatives to get it backward in the matter of South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson.

Last week the House officially “admonished” Wilson for shouting “You lie!” during President Obama’s address to Congress about health care reform. By a vote of 240-179, the lawmakers, using the high-falutin’ lingo that’s their specialty, huffed that Wilson was guilty of “a breach of decorum that degraded the proceedings of the joint session, to the discredit of the House. Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the House of Representatives disapproves of the behavior of the Representative from South Carolina, Mr. Wilson.”

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