Though at first Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted nothing to do with Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You Lie!” fiasco, she has since come around and led House Democrats to vote on a “resolution of disapproval” against Wilson late Monday. Wilson—who famously heckled the president during his joint address to Congress, then apologized, then turned his bad manners into a fundraising tool—has repeatedly said he “won’t be offering any more apologies,” an oath that rankles fellow South Carolina Representative and House Majority Whip James Clyburn. Clyburn, a Democrat, has led the charge against Wilson on the grounds of Congressional decorum and sending a message that degrading treatment of the president will not be tolerated. House Republicans say they will oppose the sanction, characterizing it as “petty partisanship.”
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