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Henry Fairlie On Joe Wilson (R-SC)

By The Daily Dish
Sep 10 2009, 11:07 AM ET

He saw him coming a mile off:

"Just as Americans in general do not have the habits of deference, so the conservative in America does not have them either. Ultimately he does not defer even to the country’s institutions. If one of these institutions, such as the Supreme Court, makes decisions he detests, he will defame that institution. He is as ready as is the common man to bypass the institutions he ought to defend."


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