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Senate Shows the Boss Who's Boss
It looks like Bruce Springsteen will have to content himself with fame, wealth and the enduring admiration of the masses, because that suitable-for-framing piece of paper from the U.S. Senate just isn't happening.
A resolution that would have hailed Springsteen on the 30th anniversary of the release of the rock star's iconic Born to Run album was killed Friday, the Associated Press reported.
The resolution, sponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jon Corzine, both of Springsteen's native New Jersey, never came up for a full vote, the wire service said.
Lautenberg and Corzine are both Democrats; those who denied the resolution from coming to the floor were Republicans of the GOP-led body. The Associated Press report all but linked the Republicans' resistance to Springsteen's 2004 presidential campaign efforts for Democratic nominee John Kerry. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist did not comment Friday on the matter.
Kerry was the first presidential candidate openly endorsed by Springsteen, who previously reserved his statements and odes to the working class for his music. Calling the 2004 election the most important one of his lifetime, Springsteen played packed rallies for the Kerry cause--his Born in the U.S.A. hit "No Surrender" was called "our theme song" by the senator.
Springsteen also helped spearhead the Vote for Change Tour, where he and artists like the Dixie Chicks, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam campaigned for the ouster of President Bush-- a move that caused one right-leaning U.S. Senate candidate in New York to call for a boycott of Springsteen's music.
"Even if Republicans don't like [Springsteen's] tunes, I would hope they appreciated his contributions to American culture," Lautenberg told the Associated Press.
Senate seal of approval or no, Springsteen, 56, is still having a good week. A CD box set edition of Born to Run was released Tuesday, prompting new critical applause for the 1975 collection.
Springsteen, for one, is not modest about his ambitions for the album that simultaneously put him on the covers of Time and Newsweek. As he told CBS News Monday, "I wanted to make one of the greatest rock records ever."
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