{"id":363,"date":"2009-12-10T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-12-10T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:58:00","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-wing-nut-war-on-christmas-time-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/10\/it%e2%80%99s-wing-nut-war-on-christmas-time-again\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Wing-Nut War on Christmas Time Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started before Halloween on Faux Noise<\/em>, and now its back in Congress again.<\/p>\n

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\"war-on-christmas\"<\/a> In late October, Congress passed a resolution honoring the birthday of Chinese philosopher Confucius. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) blasted the Democratic leadership for<\/font> wasting Congress\u2019 time<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n

While Democrats get ready to celebrate the birth of an ancient Chinese philosopher, House Republicans will talk about our better solutions to create jobs<\/span> and make health care more affordable and accessible for America\u2019 s seniors. It is unacceptable for Congress to take it easy at a time when the nation\u2019s unemployment rate is nearing 10 percent<\/span> and millions of out-of-work families struggling to make ends meet are asking, \u201cwhere are the jobs?\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

But Steve Benen points out that<\/font> 19 Republican members have now introduced<\/a> an important resolution to\u2026honor Christmas:<\/font><\/p>\n

Whereas Christmas is a national holiday celebrated on December 25; and<\/font><\/p>\n

Whereas the Framers intended that the First Amendment of the Constitution, in prohibiting the establishment of religion, would not prohibit any mention of religion or reference to God in civic dialog: Now, therefore, be it<\/font><\/p>\n

Resolved, That the House of Representatives\u2013<\/font><\/p>\n

(1) recognizes the importance of the symbols and traditions of Christmas;<\/font><\/p>\n

(2) strongly disapproves of attempts to ban references to Christmas; and<\/font><\/p>\n

(3) expresses support for the use of these symbols and traditions by those who celebrate Christmas\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Repuglicans are the masters at obstructing real issues by wasting time on non issues,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It started before Halloween on Faux Noise, and now its back in Congress again. In late October, Congress passed a resolution honoring the birthday of Chinese philosopher Confucius. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) blasted the Democratic leadership for wasting Congress\u2019 time: While Democrats get ready to celebrate the birth of an ancient Chinese philosopher, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}