 The Muslim holiday of Ramadan began on Sept 13th. A Congressional resolution commemorating the beginning of Ramadan passed easily with no votes against it. Interesting was that 41 Republicans and 1 Democrat voted "Present" - a protest vote of sorts.
OK, fine - I can see the point that perhaps Congress has more important work to do than to bother itself with meaningless laudatory resolutions. At least one lawmaker pointed out that it seemed unconstitutional. Fair enough, but a Congressional resolution doesn't constitute a "law" as in "Congress shall make no law...".
I'm totally fine with the position that "we have better things to do than vote on this". But if that's the case, then one shouldn't vote "Yea" on any other laudatory bills, should one? Well, that's not the case with Michael Burgess. In just one quick example I easily found, he voted "Yea" on a laudatory resolution "Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that those who celebrate Christmas believe that the symbols and traditions of Christmas should be protected" - H.Res.579 (109th).
Again, nothing wrong with voting yea on this, by itself, but both votes taken together make him either a hypocrite or a bigot, or both. You choose. Either he's trying to placate the moon-bat crazy tin-foil -hat-wearing xenophobic Republican base, or B) He suddenly found it inappropriate to vote for a laudatory measure when it included a religion other than Christianity.
Burgess is NOT a co-sponsor of H.Res.476 - condeming bigotry against Iranian Americans. Wonder why?
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