This may be the stupid idea of the year:
http://gawker.com/5844803/congressman-to-introduce-proposal-for-time-traveling-to-1991
Rep. Don Young of Alaska (where else) wants to repeal all government regulations implemented since 1991.
Are these guys in a race to see who can be more stupid?
Why 1991, is this some new splinter sect from the Amish or something?
So that means no TSA, no Patriot Act, no NCLB, no DOMA, no DADT, no NAFTA, no Welfare Reform Act, no Gramm-Leach-Biley, no Kelo, no Citizens United, and all the Bush tax cuts get rolled back, right?
Hmm. I could get on board with this.
On the other hand, I guess absinthe would be illegal again. Guess it’s a double-edged sword.
Or ran it but “accidentally” an “R” next to the person’s name.
Ya, know, if that includes repealing all the repeals of regulations that happened since 1991, it might not be so terrible.
In the very words of the Congressman:
Ah, yes, a return to the glory time of high unemployment, massive government budgetary deficits, and slow Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth affecting the United States until late 1992
This guy looks old enough to remember this. Was he in a coma in 1991? Or does he have a memory problem?
And certainly not because that would conveniently wipe out everything Clinton and Obama did, plus the one guy Republicans wish we would forget. Not at all.
He looks old enough to have dementia.
It’s the modern Republican love of specific numbers for no particular reason. Like the current incarnation of the Balanced Budget Amendment, which specifies a spending limit of 18% of GDP. Why not 17%? Or 19.314159%?
Similarly, Cain’s 999 plan. Why not 888? I can see why he stayed away from 666, but he could scare off the religious right if someone were to read his plan upside down.
I wonder how Santorum’s son Commodus is handling this controversy.
Clothahump’s thread is Stupid Liberals, not Stupid Democrats, however much he may wish to believe that the words are synonyms.
And, that said, he’s just posted it himself. (I’ll assume he got it from this thread.)
That’s just sad.
But it’s the correct thread. It was dumb, and Democratic.
It’s dumb to assume rhetorical tools like hyperbole and sarcasm are within the intellectual grasp of your audience. Speak slowly, use small words and never confuse them with oratorical flair.
Even if you have to restrain your rhetoric due to the dumbing down of America, surely we haven’t sunk so low that we have to be niggardly with our vocabulary as well?
I saw what you did there.
None of those are regulations, except the TSA (in part). They’re legislation and decisional law. Regulations are rules adopted by the executive branch (eg., FDA labeling standards).
Except that the implementation of the laws is generally(?) via regulations. So no law passed in the last 20 years would have any implementation regulations associated with it.
As a bonus, we probably wouldn’t have to take our shoes off before boarding a plane.
Yeah, but that’s not what he was saying- and implementation regulations mostly fill gaps in legislation. Most legislation is largely self-executing - so we’d still have all that stuff, just more litigation over it.
Did Dopers read the Huffington Post article Undocumented Women Forced To Give Birth While Shackled And In Police Custody ?
Ms. Villegas was arrested in Tennessee 2008. The article mentions two similar stories (2007, 2010) from Sheriff Arpaio’s County in Arizona:
ETA: Although we remember Arpaio’s political affiliation, I don’t think the Nashville affiliation was mentioned in Huffington Post. It is a sad commentary that we can be almost certain, based on this behavior, that that Sheriff is also Republican.