Pelosi: Resolution on Michael Jackson Unnecessary

[SuperTrouper]

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she sees no need for a House resolution in praise of Michael Jackson.

Pelosi, D-Calif., says Jackson was a great performer, but she thinks the resolution is unnecessary.

She said at a news conference Thursday that lawmakers could honor Jackson in speeches in the House. But she said a resolution would open up Jackson's life to "contrary views that are not necessary at this time."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, has proposed the resolution in Jackson's honor.

Such a resolution is a nonbinding but symbolic expression from lawmakers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_go_co/us_pelosi_michael_jackson_1

[Critters2]

1. She's right. Congress has real work to do. nt

[Double T]

6. congress hasn't done any REAL work in decades.

Honoring MJ would be a good thing to do.

[Critters2]

13. Neither has Michael Jackson. nt

[Double T]

21. Better check his charitable donations and tell me he hasn't done anything.

congress on the other hand knows how to piss money away like none other.

[YOY]

2. It's a waste of their time.

THere are far more important things no that table.

Mike was awesome in many ways but this is just silly.

[scheming daemons]

3. Pelosi is 100% absolutely correct.

No resolutions to praise a pedophile.

[Enrique]

4. Republicans will suddenly rally around Michael Jackson

call him an American hero, just to be contrary to Pelosi.

[okieinpain]

9. you're probably right. n/t.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Wow. I agree with Pelosi.

I guess it's time to go to bed.

[SuperTrouper]

7. LOL!! I agree. Seems like Pelosi is having a good day... nt

[okieinpain]

8. thank god. whew glad they are not getting into that mess. n/t.

[get the red out]

10. Definitely!

I am not trying to cut Michael Jackson down by saying this but they don't have resolutions to honor every person who works their whole lives feeding the poor or educating the underprivileged when they pass; so this proposed resolution would be quite improper. Just because someone is rich and famous doesn't mean their good works are beyond the good works of countless unnammed people who devote their lives to others.

[Mojambo]

11. These resolutions are so stupid. Congress has NO business taking them up.

For anyone.

Do the legislative business of the people. Nothing more.

[WI_DEM]

12. I agree with her.

[JonQ]

14. Excellent

although the fact that this has to be stated (rather than taken for granted) is a sad testament.

He wasn't that great of a role-model anyway. I'll never understand the MJ frenzy that so many people seem to have.

[niceypoo]

15. Pelosi: No Jacko

[jesus_of_suburbia]

16. It's crazy. Michael was an AMAZING performer, but Pelosi is correct.

[Mike K]

17. Jackson: The Cultural Emblem of America?

Sheila Jackson Lee,, who usually presents as a comparatively intelligent and reasoned person did herself no favor by trying to hook a clearly ethnocentric wagon to a highly overrated star with this utterly stupid proposal.

What would the substance of this resolution be? Ultimately, Jackson will be remembered as the black man who tried to turn himself white but ended up looking like a von Helsing fantasy, liked sleeping with little boys and died of a drug overdose.

[ellacott]

18. Ethnocentric wagon?

What craziness. Typical

[ellacott]

19. There have been so many inconsequential resolutions

But no one had a problem with them. Mr. Wizard got a resolution and they made a resolution for national watermelon month.

[cbdo2007]

20. They'll just wait and tack it on to the end of some other bill.

Maybe the "second stimulus" everyone's talking about. Everyone knows that MJ is due some props for his incredible career but they all probably think it's too sensitive an issue to publicly debate. They'll just tack it on to the end of something else and everyone will vote for it and shazaam.