Posted on 03/21/2017 10:14:03 PM PDT by Zakeet
Barack Obama's name is revered in his home state. But the Illinois House has rejected making his birthday a state holiday.
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The Republican floor leader says even Obama wouldn't want the cash-strapped state to give state workers another paid day off.
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The vote was 54-57. Harper used a procedure allowing another vote later.
The day of his passing should be a national holiday.
The vote was 54-57 even though Madigan has a veto proof majority in the House, I'm guessing some downstate and suburban Dems voted the right way on this one. I'm still trying to find a roll call vote. Looks like the sponsors of the bill were mostly black RATs from Chicago.
On the other hand, two days later in the year, and four thousand miles to the west, Little Boy's birthday deserves recognition as a signal American achievement. He worked as designed without so much as a test!
Let doze Chi-town Illinois scum (regrettably, the state of my birth, duly authenticated by Richard J Daley) celebrate that!
I can see celebrating the day he dies for a week or two but his birthday? Really?
Speaking of comedy, Chuck Barris, dead at 87:
Was it ever confirmed that he was a CIA agent, or was that fiction?
“Looks like the sponsors of the bill were mostly black RATs from Chicago.”
Race uber alles. Glad the clown show got croaked.
I thought I pinged you to the thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3536928/posts
As for his being CIA, they’d never confirm it even if it were true. Besides, if they have paid assassins, they’ve sure done a lousy-ass job over the past 7 decades. Think of all the trash that should’ve been taken out (and should be at present) and haven’t.
No. I guess I’m in the back of the bus.
True. Lots of tumble weeds out there.
Just one of the lowest of the low politicians who have emerged from the muck of Illinois politics.
Obama already has a holiday named after him.
April Fool’s Day.
Illinois? Nope, that should not be his home state. More appropriate would be of these provinces:
Central
Coast
Eastern
Nairobi
North Eastern
Nyanza
Rift Valley
Western
lol. Exactly.
If we end up full commie, it will be required day of celebration and in 100 years the history books will tell of how he won every war he started and turned America around forever (that still may hold true, I hope not)
In the true Obama spirit of “the laws don’t apply to me”, they should make his birthday a holiday from laws. Where all laws are suspended for the day.
Of course, it would just be another day in Chicago where the laws are mostly ignored, anyway.
Barris was a great promoter. RIP
and Oba,ma still SUCKS
Chuck Berry and now Chuck Barris...
Bad week for Chucks...
Sad to hear it... Barris was a funny guy.
Yes and yes.
Bad week indeed. But 90 and 87, respectively? Good runs.
I was in diapers when “The Gong Show” was on,
1977-78, time frame, I was 16, 17 years old. Loved that show.
Damn, seems like a lifetime and another world ago.
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