Coons gave Joe “You Lie!” Wilson a pass but scolds Democrats
In September 2009, Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson-R (SC-2nd) interrupted a speech by President Barack Obama to the joint session of Congress by shouting “You lie!”
Did Chris Coons pull a big sad about that? Did he pen lachrymose Op-eds lamenting Wilson’s lack of civility? Did he eschew ever working with someone as lacking in civility as Wilson? Fuck no he didn’t.
You know what he did instead? After shit dies down a bit, he reached out to Wilson and in Coons-style bipartisan obsequiousness, he celebrated working with Wilson on a “bipartisan, bicameral bill to help drive investment in new energy technologies”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to establish a nonprofit foundation for the U.S. Department of Energy that would channel private-sector investments and accelerate the commercialization of innovative technologies in energy.
Coons is terrible. There is nothing Republicans can do to offend Coons, and there is nothing liberal Democrats do that doesn’t offend him.
FTR – I know Coons first won election to the Senate in 2010, so if you want to get all lawyerly about it, he is hereby excused from not penning teary op-eds. He is not excused, however, from currying favor and extending his bipartisanship to outright conservative shitheads like Joe Wilson.
He did lie. Remember the you can keep your plan and doctor like? Just ask Gruber.
An actual Coons talking point. Thanks.
hmm, if only there was some way of figuring out what happened to that health care plane between Obama making that speech and it’s final passage.
leave to a magat to forget the president isnt a dictator.
A really smart move. The old political adage:. Keep your enemies close.