Rep. Joe Wil­son yelled “You lie!” dur­ing the President’s speech last night.

I didn’t watch the Dear Leader’s speech to Con­gress and the Amer­i­can peo­ple last night, but boy I heard about it this morn­ing.  Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Joe Wil­son (R — South Car­olina) yelled “You lie!” to the Pres­i­dent last night after Obama’s state­ment that those who were say­ing the health­care bill would cover ille­gals were wrong.  (Dare I say he was call­ing them “liars”?)

I’m sorry, but I can’t con­done this act by Joe Wil­son.  Sure, I agree that Obama was lying, as he has been ever since he got in office.  But to heckle the Pres­i­dent while he’s mak­ing a tele­vised speech is just dis­re­spect­ful of the office.  I don’t care who it is — that is some­thing you don’t do.  I didn’t like it when Cindy Shee­han and all the idiot lib­er­als were doing it to Pres­i­dent Bush, and I don’t like it now.  It’s not the proper place or the time for that.  He is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the peo­ple of South Car­olina and the Repub­li­can Party.  This action reflects poorly on the peo­ple back home.  There is a rea­son they have a time slot for the opposition’s response after the speech — and that is to rebut what you believe is wrong about what was said by the President.

Now Rep. Wil­son did call and apol­o­gize, and I applaud him for that.  It takes humil­ity to real­ize when you’re wrong.  That being said, I hap­pen to agree with Rep. Wil­son.  Obama has lied and lied to the Amer­i­can peo­ple about his true inten­tions, and what he hopes to achieve.  You only have to look at the peo­ple he sur­rounds him­self with to know that.  William Ayers, Jere­miah Wright, Van Jones, Cass Sun­stein.  He has had to dis­tance him­self from every one of these (except the last, but it’s coming…)

I just hope the Repub­li­can Party real­izes they’re going to have to be smarter than usual when rebut­ting this pres­i­dent.  Unfor­tu­nately he has a rabid fol­low­ing of peo­ple who will believe any­thing he says and will not research things on their own.  They are going to have to rise above the usual polit­i­cal rhetoric and behave more pro­fes­sion­ally than the lib­er­als did dur­ing the Bush  Admin­is­tra­tion.  That is the only way they can rebuild the party and get peo­ple (includ­ing me) to sup­port them again.  And they’re going to have to stick to their core beliefs.  Oth­er­wise, peo­ple like me will be vot­ing for a third party from here on out.

UPDATE:  Here’s a reminder of what the Democ­rats did dur­ing Bush’s State of the Union Speech in 2005.  Dis­re­spect­ful?  Yeah.