Oh yes, not to be outdone, the House of Representatives last Thursday decided to pass a couple of nonsense do-nothing resolutions that the Senate had already passed!
House Resolution 56: Designating the week of February 2 through February 6, 2009 as National School Counseling Week
House Resolution 58: Commending the University of Florida Gators for winning the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game
Oh no, I am not kidding. I didn't post a lot of new junk last week because the congress seemed, for a brief moment, to be following President Obama's lead and getting down to the business of fixing the country. That didn't last long. Just two days after Obama took office, the stupid votes began rearing their ugly heads again.
Just to drive home the stupidity of these particular votes, let me point out that these are resolutions. Resolutions don't create laws; they are used to express support for a course of action or disapproval of something that another country did, or just as often, are used to congratulate football teams or to create unofficial weeks of recognition. Let me point out that the Senate alter-egos of these resolutions, Senate Resolution 16 and Senate Resolution 13 already did that! There is no reason for the House to stoop to their level, especially considering that the House version of these resolutions both required forty minutes of "debate". The Senate already gave these unofficial recognitions; why does the House have to waste their time acting as a stupid Senate parrot?
That's right, United States House of Representatives. I called you a stupid Senate parrot. What are you going to do about it?
Monday, January 26, 2009
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