July 28, 2009

Our long months of despair and uncertainty are finally over

With nothing else pressing going on at the moment, politicians decide to take 'stupid' to the next level:

The House resolution to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hawaiian statehood -- which included language recognizing the state as President Obama's birthplace, in a none-too-subtle jab at the Birthers -- passed this evening by a 378-0 vote.

Among the Yes votes: Rep. Bill Posey (R-Hurrrrrr), the lead sponsor of the infamous "Birther Bill" to require presidential candidates to present their birth certificates, and who had previously said he wouldn't "swear on a stack of Bibles" that Obama is a natural-born American citizen.
That they even had to THINK about doing this still astounds me. I want to smack the living shit out of all of them. But that's just me.

4 comments:

thesmoots said...

Newsflash - Republicans show iota of common sense. Used up now, country to suffer for months to come...

julian said...

The interesting thing now is to see who didn't vote. The House has 435 seats...

ThePoliticalCat said...

No, hun, that's not just you. You should organize the slapfest and sell tickets. You'd be rich overnight.

Anonymous said...

Not Voting

Akin
Barrett (SC)
Bishop (NY)
Boucher
Brady (TX)
Braley (IA)
Brown (SC)
Camp
Campbell
Carter
Costello
Courtney
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Davis (AL)
Davis (IL)
Deal (GA)
Engel
Graves
Green, Al
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Higgins
Hodes
Hoekstra
Johnson (IL)
Kilroy
Larsen (WA)
Lynch
Maloney
Marchant
McCarthy (NY)
Miller (NC)
Murphy (CT)
Murtha
Olson
Ortiz
Paul
Platts
Quigley
Radanovich
Rodriguez
Rohrabacher
Rush
Schakowsky
Sestak
Sires
Smith (WA)
Stupak
Tiberi
Tsongas
Wamp
Waters
Waxman
Weiner