The repugican congressman who thinks the American flag should only be
lowered to honor U.S. citizens didn't appear to have any qualms with the
wave of tributes for a deceased pontiff.
Jim Sensenbrenner (r-WI)
said last week that
he objected to lowering the flag to honor late South African President
Nelson Mandela, a tribute the congressman said "should be for mourning
Americans and not for foreign leaders."
The last time flags were flown at half-staff to honor a foreign
dignitary came in 2005, when the shrub issued the
order to memorialize Pope John Paul II.
Sensenbrenner
issued an official statement mourning the pope on the day he died, a gesture the congressman didn't do for Mandela.
And as the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted,
Sensenbrenner lobbied for a resolution in 2003 pushing the shrub to award
Pope John Paul II the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest
civilian honor in the United States. The resolution passed the House,
but failed in the Senate.
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