By DaysWithDave
Published: March 22, 2010
Riding high after he scored his historic win with the House passage of the Senate Health Care Reform bill, HR 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010, Obama quickly launched into his next domestic priority with the March Madness Correction Bill.
The President’s new priority is aimed at helping the millions of Americans that are still employed participating in office pools for the 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Tournament, as well as the unemployed betting on college games through a bookie or online gambling.
“Millions of Americans have participated this year in this annual pastime of filling out a sixty-four slot bracket to predict who will win the NCAA men’s basketball championship,” Obama said to reporters after commenting on the House’s courage in moving the cause of universal health care coverage forward.
“We promised the country change,” the President went on and added, “and we delivered that change today. Now it’s time to move on to other issues the American people are deeply concerned about, as am I.”
President Obama then shocked the press pool by announcing that his next congressional priority will be to have Congress overturn some of the results of the first 4 days of the 2010 to help ease many Americans’ psyche’s as well as give them a fresh start at winning their office pools.
Obama went into campaign mode and offered, “I know many Americans are hurting right now. I’m hurting. I picked both Kansas and Villanova to be in the Final Four in my bracket. I know that many of you also picked these two teams to make it to the Final Four. I know the majority of all office pool participants picked the Jayhawks to win it all. That’s why I’m calling on Congress to pass legislation overturning the results of the games affecting most of America.”
Adding to the urgency of his call the President demanded that Congress pass this legislation by the time he returns from Asia as, “the Sweet Sixteen starts this Thursday and the American People are counting on us to get this done.”
President Obama appears to have close to a plurality of support in the House but is yet again going to have to deal with the Democrat’s Pro-Life wing led by their figurehead, Bart Stupak of Michigan.
Representative Stupak said in a press conference, “Although I agree with President Obama that the majority of the American people are suffering with the shocking losses by several top seeds in this year’s March Madness office pools, I can’t get behind this bill without the assurance that no current participant in the tournament be allowed to have or order an abortion.”
Republicans have already come out in opposition to Obama’s latest agenda. Minority Leader John Boehner was the first to speak up saying, “The American people are against this socialization of American Collegiate sports. If Democrats insist on altering the office pool brackets of proud Americans they will find themselves out of jobs come November.”
DaysWithDave is a contributing writer to The Internets.
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