Should Inauguration Day be a Nat'l Holiday?

[volinbham]

Regardless of who wins, should this be a national holiday every 4 years? It is a highly significant event demonstrating the orderly transition of power in the most powerful country in the world.

What say you?

 

[rjd970]

No. Have the justice come to the oval office, swear on a bible, and then get to work. It is an unecessary ceremony IMO.

 

[TennTradition]

I think that it would work...

 

[OWB]

Of course it should.

 

[Vol Mania 21]

i agree, worthless ceremony. and obama is starting off on the right foot by spending 4 times what Bush did and was criticized for spending. and he's spending it during a pretty bad economic time for the USA. nice job

 

[cd12]

There is an Easter type feel in the air.....

 

[BigPapaVol]

I'm a no vote, but I can certainly see both sides. Seeing the actual cost numbers bandied about lately makes everything about me hate the idea of it.

 

[IPorange]

I feel bad for my friends in D.C. that had to work today. I bet it was hell to have to hoof it across town with everything being so jammed.

 

[therealUT]

There are already too many "holidays".

 

[TennTradition]

There are already too many "holidays".

That would be my biggest reason to be against it...but the once every 4 years helps...

 

[volinbham]

When I voted "yes" I was thinking it could replace one - like President's Day or whatever.

 

[The Dude]

When I voted "yes" I was thinking it could replace one - like President's Day or whatever.

Columbus day before President's day.

 

[BigPapaVol]

Columbus day before President's day.

agreed. Columbus wasn't even American. He stumbled ass backward onto the continent.

 

[The Dude]

agreed. Columbus wasn't even American. He stumbled ass backward onto the continent.

I was thinking more about misuse of the Bible to justify his acts of genocide and slavery against natives and that he was hardly the first Euro explorer to reach North America, as most of us are probably taught in school up until college.

 

[doozer]

there's no such thing as too many holidays.

 

[cd12]

there's no such thing as too many holidays.

read my mind

 

[BigPapaVol]

there's no such thing as too many holidays.

from that vantage point, no argument.

How many people really take all those tertiary holidays anyway? It just becomes another day off for gov't employees, who have about 45 already, banks and the stock market.

 

[The Dude]

Warren is currenty blurring the line between a speech and a prayer.

 

[utvolpj]

tough to say it isn't a holiday with the amount of people camped out in the lunchroom today

 

[doozer]

so prayer is ok once every four years?

but not on a daily basis?

give me a break.

 

[TennTradition]

so prayer is ok once every four years?

but not on a daily basis?

give me a break.

Don't they have prayer every morning in the house/senate?

 

[allvol123]

No. The POTUS should be sworn in with the necessary people needed in the room. Then he should get to work.

 

[RCKYT0P]

Does it equal a paid day off?

 

[OrangeEmpire]

Why not?

 

[GAVol]

When I voted "yes" I was thinking it could replace one - like President's Day or whatever.

I agree. It's the most "American" thing that we do and probably should be celebrated as such.