Joe Wilson Harks Back to Tradition of Rowdy South Carolina Politics
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 11th, 2009 4:33 am by HL
Joe Wilson Harks Back to Tradition of Rowdy South Carolina Politics
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) mastered politics in a state where no-holds-barred political combat dates to the days before the Civil War, when one of its congressmen entered the Senate chamber and beat a Massachusetts senator with a cane for attacking pro-slavery Southerners.
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John Boehner of Ohio, the House Republican leader, showed up half an hour late for his weekly news conference on Thursday, but he had a good excuse: He had been trying to persuade Joe Wilson to apologize on the floor of the House for shouting “You lie!” at President Obama during his address to…
Obama Health-Care Reform Plan Still Lacks Specifics
One day after President Obama pitched his plan for comprehensive health-care reform to a joint session of Congress, administration officials struggled Thursday to detail how he would achieve his goal of extending coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans without increasing the deficit.
Post Interview Transcript: Iran’s Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi
Transcript of an interview with Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi, top aide to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Sept. 10, 2009, in his office in Tehran. The interview was translated from Farsi by The Washington Post.
