Congress Votes No On Payroll Tax Cuts…But Yes On Winston Churchill Bust!

In an implicit jab to President Obama, who returned a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill back to the UK in 2009 while the Oval Office was undergoing remodeling, Speaker of the House John Boehner is bringing the statue back to Congress.

According to ThinkProgress’s Alex Seitz-Wald, “the Churchill bill was approved via unanimous consent.”

While seemingly an innocuous gesture, Gawker’s Jim Newell calls the move the “climax of a nearly three-year right-wing crusade against Barack Obama, whom they believe got rid of a White House bust of Winston Churchill upon assuming office in a fit of uppity anti-colonial rage.”

And while House Republicans were able to give the thumbs up on art featuring the former British Prime Minister, they failed to approve the considerably more pressing matter of extending the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits.

Watch Boehner announce the new bust below and view his full resolution at TheHill.

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