Will the Senate pass a resolution to honor the late Margaret Thatcher? Not if Sen. Bob Menendez has anything to say about it.
As the Daily Caller reported yesterday — and National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru has evidently confirmed — Menendez is responsible for holding up a proposed Senate resolution to “honor the life, legacy, and example of British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher.”
@DLoesch @RameshPonnuru What an Idiot! What possible reason could Menendez have to hold a simple resolution to honor Margaret Thatcher!
— Joe (@JoeC1776) April 16, 2013
Paying tribute to a champion of freedom is apparently just not that important to the priorities-challenged senator.
Weird, I thought he loved women MT @DailyCaller: Menendez holding up vote on resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher – http://t.co/WInYvjkkge
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) April 15, 2013
Not his demographic MT @RameshPonnuru Have confirmed… that the senator blocking the Thatcher resolution is Menendez D., N.J.
— Rick Sheridan (@RickSheridan) April 16, 2013
Senator Menendez would totally be for the Thatcher resolution if some underage hookers he didn't have to pay were involved.
— eric (@eriContrarian) April 16, 2013
MT @RameshPonnuru: Have confirmed, as other reported, senator blocking the Thatcher resolution is Menendez (D., N.J.). | He's frustrated?
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) April 16, 2013
Really, Senator?
Unreal RT @RameshPonnuru: Have confirmed, as others have reported, that the senator blocking the Thatcher resolution is Menendez (D., N.J.).
— American Journalists Publish Chinese Propaganda (@JohnEkdahl) April 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/Evan_Weston/status/324167263097856000
Classy. RT @RameshPonnuru: Have confirmed, as others have reported, that the senator blocking Thatcher resolution is Menendez (D., N.J.).
— Laura Curtis (@Laura_PH) April 16, 2013
Class act. RT @RameshPonnuru: Have confirmed, as others have reported,that the senator blocking the Thatcher resolution is Menendez(D.,N.J.)
— The deadly river Neva (@pipandbaby) April 16, 2013
WTF??? RT @RameshPonnuru Have confirmed, as others have reported, that the senator blocking the Thatcher resolution is Menendez (D., N.J.).
— Matthew DesOrmeaux ⚜ (@authoridad) April 16, 2013
It is an absolute disgrace the U.S. Senate is not giving Margaret Thatcher the honor she is due https://t.co/NfN5bm1KB8
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) April 16, 2013
It is — but what else would you expect from a disgrace like Menendez?
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Update:
Sen. Menendez proposed his own version of a resolution:
https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/324247291844251649
Unfortunately for him, the effort didn’t pan out. The resolution in its original language has just passed:
The Senate just adopted the resolution honoring Lady Margaret Thatcher by unanimous consent.
— Heritage Action (@Heritage_Action) April 16, 2013
https://twitter.com/AlexPappas/status/324259048964894720
Very happy to see Senate Democrats finally stopped objecting to a resolution honoring the life of Margaret Thatcher.
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) April 16, 2013
Indeed.
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