David Biespiel Poet and writer, Attic Writers Workshop :
The House resolution makes me roll me eyes and say, "Whatever!" But, as today's Politico article details, the United States House of Representatives has its rules. Congressman Wilson's outburst activated a sense that he defied those rules. Rules of order are essential in a republic and a legislative body. And this: If members of Congress believe that they can shout "You lie" to the President of the United States of any party when he or she is an invited guest to their Joint Session and suffer no formal rebuke from their congressional peers, then today's resolution states clearly that they cannot make that assumption. With this resolution, the matter is resolved.