Right-wing congresscritters try revoking Obama's Nobel

Gee, isn't it nice to know the Republicans are on top of the issues that really, really matter?

Three Republican members of Congress are upset that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize instead of them. The Republicans think they deserve the prize, because we all know how peace-loving they are.

So now they absurdly claim Obama is not allowed to accept this prize.

A letter from Reps. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Florida), Cliff Stearns (R-Florida again!), and Ron Paul (R-Texas) says the President is required to obtain congressional approval before accepting the Nobel. They cite the Constitution's clause that says public officials may not accept a "present, emolument, office or title" issued by a "king, prince or foreign state" without congressional approval.

The Nobel, however, is not a state-sponsored prize. It's awarded by a committee authorized by a foreign parliament - but that doesn't necessarily mean the prize itself is state-sponsored. This debate though is moot, because Congress passed a law decades ago authorizing Presidents to receive awards like the Nobel.

Why didn't anyone raise a stink when Reagan received a title of nobility from the British monarchy? Nobody saw the irony of a U.S. President accepting a British title of nobility? I thought America was founded upon breaking away from Britain's ruling elite. Rappin' Ronnie had a hell of a way to unwin the Revolutionary War, huh?

The health care system is broken, our schools have become glorified prisons, and we're arguing about this???