From an email from Senator Arlen Specter -
“A key point in the President’s presentation was his insistence that there not be any addition to the deficit or to the national debt, and he outlined a number of ideas where savings can be obtained. It is important in the public option that the President’s ideas be implemented to maintain a level playing field with private insurance plans.
I was very perturbed, frankly, about the outburst by South Carolina Representative Joseph Wilson who did not show proper respect to either the President or the Office of the Presidency. Representative Wilson has already issued an apology. In my own view, that is insufficient. I believe that there has to be consideration by the House of Representatives as to disciplinary action; that is within their purview. But being in the Chamber and seeing the outburst, it was unseemly and that kind of conduct ought not to be tolerated.”
Dear Senator,
We respectfully disagree with the comments you have made calling for a disciplinary action against Rep. Wilson. He spoke what many of us watching were thinking! It is not possible to believe that you can remove $600 billion from Medicare and add 30 million people to coverage and not create either deficits or rationing and the last point the President made was that if they cannot make budget restraints they will cut costs further! If that does not lead to rationing, then I suspect the tooth fairy will be bringing us the care!
When asked to exclude illegal aliens, The House committees rejected the amendments. And, by current law, any person entering a public hospital must be treated, regardless of their ability to pay. For the President to say that illegal immigrants will not be covered is not consistent even with his own previous speeches. Democrats never seemed to flinch from Booing President Bush and Senate leader Harry Reid called the President a liar on TV. Candidate (and Senator) Obama called former President Clinton a baldfaced liar in the campaign, If you want to discipline Rep Wilson, why did you not call these people to task?
