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:

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

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  2. julian5:35 PM

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

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

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  4. Anonymous9:04 AM

    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

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