The stupid votes are coming!

So I said below that congress likes to wait a bit for people to stop paying attention before working on their time-waster resolutions. Well, I was wrong. I took a peek at the congressional activities since the eleventy-first congress convened, and here is just some of what I found:

House Resolution 6: Recognizing the significant contribution coaches make in the life of children who participate in organized sports and supporting the goals and ideals of National Coaches Appreciation Week.

House Resolution 16: Supporting the goals and ideals of National Life Insurance Awareness Month.

House Resolution 18: Honoring the life, achievements, and contributions of Paul Newman.

Senate Resolution 5: A resolution expressing the support for prayer at school board meetings.

Senate Resolution 7: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding designation of the month of November as "National Military Family Month".

Senate Resolution 8: A resolution relative to the death of the Honorable Claiborne de Borda Pell, former United States Senator for the State of Rhode Island.

Now, I'm not saying these things aren't important. I'm sure they're very meaningful to a number of people. I'm saying that passing these resolutions aren't congress's job! Let's appoint some outside commission to do this junk and let the congress fix things like, oh, I dunno.. the economy!

Just sayin'.

For the record, none of these have passed yet. I just dug deeply through congressional records to see what was coming. I had to sift through a lot of stuff to find these, so I'm not going to make a habit of it. However, when and if these resolutions (and others) come up for a vote, you had better believe you'll hear about it.

For now, I'm going to make the three people who introduced these resolutions the charter members of the Worst Offenders list.