Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) “had warned his colleagues ahead of the speech to behave, but they ignored him and the new speaker had to resort to shushing them repeatedly from the rostrum,” Politico reports.
Amanda Carpenter: “Back in 2009, when South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson yelled ‘You lie!’ in the middle of an address by President Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress, sensibilities were shocked. Wilson’s outburst became a days-long story, and he was formally reprimanded by the House.”
“Nowadays, though, the House Republican Conference has a whole contingent of Joe Wilsons: boorish loudmouths whose lack of impulse control is only matched by their desire for attention.”
