Posted on 12/09/2009 9:59:07 AM PST by OldDeckHand
Tiger Woods has officially been declared unfit for Congress -- a California lawmaker is abandoning his plan to give Woods the highest Congressional award for a civilian in the wake of Tiger's scandal.
Earlier today, Representative Joe Baca (D-Calif) released a statement saying, "In light of the recent developments surrounding Tiger Woods and his family, I will not pursue legislation awarding him the Congressional Gold Medal this session."
Baca had previously submitted a bill to give Woods the award in recognition of his "service to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sportsmanship, and in breaking barriers with grace and dignity by showing that golf is a sport for all people."
For the record, the bill had no co-sponsor ... even before the Tiger drama began.
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Joe is baca...
With all of his other problems, I’m certain this is the equivalent of being put on “double secret probation.”
Don’t agree with this ‘golf is a sport for all people’ thing. Private clubs have outrageous fees and the public courses are usually riddled with snobs and elitists...my experience with golf, anyway.
Radioactive...
I still haven’t figured out why liberals (the media) has turned on him. It can’t be because he doesn’t need the government, they would turn on Oprah then.
>”his “service to the Nation”
Yup, one woman at a time....
My theory is that he hasn’t shown sufficient “blackness” to keep the liberal establishment happy. After all, he hangs around on those awful golf courses with white people.
Same could have been said for OJ, but eventually that race card will be played, and they will start whining that they are just trying to "keep a brother down."
Too Bad for Tiger...... chicks love Congressional Gold Medals
“promoting excellence and good sportsmanship”
Say what?
Actually, tiger is going to be subjected to Capital Punishment - his banks accounts are going to suffer mightily.
I thought only Han Solo and Lando Calrissian could understand what Joebacca says.
Congress is loaded up with unemployable blowhards and frauds - and they think their opinion matters to anyone? I have no dog in this fight and don’t care about any of it.
Woods unfit for congress??
Agreed, he’s a sleazeball, but then so is the vast majority of congress.
However, at least Woods has a talent. As for congress......hmmmmm.
And, if Kennedy and Kerry are senators (well, Roman senators)...and the banking queen is in the house...there are no standards to speak of.
The reason for the outrageous fees is to keep the snobs and elitists out of the private clubs.
The media had no choice. Once again the National Enquirer FORCED the media to cover this story. Once the NE broke the story, the MSM conspiracy to promote this fraud was over. Either you cover the story, or your competitor does and your viewers/readers flow to them.
Same could have been said for OJ, but eventually that race card will be played, and they will start whining that they are just trying to “keep a brother down.”
I agree although for Tiger it will be a little tougher. It was OJ’s “dream team” that played the race card, and he had nothing to lose. On the other hand, Tiger's appeal has been the ambiguity of his race. He could be seen as black when it was advantageous, but he was so non threatening that he could virtually “pass” as white. If he tries the race card, it pretty well locks him into one definition.
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