Texas GOP House Members Join Dems to Applaud Obama

Texas Tribune 5/1/11

For a rare moment, Republicans in the lower chamber set aside their anti-Washington rhetoric and joined their Democratic colleagues to congratulate President Barack Obama for ordering the military action that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A motion by state Rep. Joe Farias, D-San Antonio, a veteran, to suspend the necessary posting rules to recognize House Resolution 1694, was greeted with raucous applause from House members and spectators in the gallery. Farias and state Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, are joint authors of the resolution.

"The president's patience, leadership, wisdom, and determination have led directly to the demise of the most wanted man in the world, and have hardened this nation’s resolve to defeat the forces of malevolent fanaticism," the resolution states.

The resolution stands in stark contrast to a statement issued earlier today by Gov. Rick Perry, who did not mention either Obama or President George W. Bush.

As Farias addressed the floor, he was flanked and applauded by some of the president’s fiercest critics, including state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, who is also a veteran. State Rep. Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, made the motion to add all members’ names to the resolution. He said that when the terrorist attacks occurred in 2001, Democrats and Republicans rallied around Bush. It was time to show the same respect to the country’s current leader, he said.


:wow: Leo Berman (birther) actually re-entered the realm of sanity, if only for a brief moment.

Kudos Representative Joe Farias and Representative Garnet Coleman! :applause: :applause: :applause:
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority. -Barbara Jordan

Copied from the Texas forum and posted by Sonias.

Why can't a Dem do it and see who follows along?

Not US House of Representatives.

:thumbsup: