Another Victory in the Christmas Wars

I reported earlier on the decision by the mayor of Encinitas (CA) to rename the town's holiday parade to Christmas parade, and now another politician is fighting the good fight to retain Christmas:

House Speaker Dennis Hastert has told federal officials that the lighted, decorated tree on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, known in recent years as the "Holiday Tree," should be renamed the "Capitol Christmas Tree."

The name change on Tuesday comes one day after the Engelmann spruce was delivered from New Mexico to Capitol Hill for decorations and displays until Jan. 2.
Hastert will light the tree, referred to as the "People's Tree" by the New Mexico-based committee that delivered it, during a ceremony on Dec. 8.

The "People's Tree"? My, how communist of them. At least the Speaker has fixed the problem and we can once again have a Christmas tree at the Capitol.