Drug testing and government benefits

[bottomofthehill]

Lets drug test Congress for them to get their paycheck, They seem to fail at everything else, lets see how they do on their drug tests

[Downwinder]

1. Guilty until proven innocent.

[midnight]

2. K&R

[ThomWV]

3. They should drug test house members before they swear them in.

[lib2DaBone]

4. Drug Test and alcohol test. John Boehner wouldn't make it past day one....

[MADem]

5. Well, if we applied this rule back in the seventies and eighties...

...a lot of liberals (to include the lion of the Senate) would have been bounced, hard, on positive tests...along with a ton of conservatives.

Drug use is one of those things that crosses party lines. The big difference, I think, is that Democrats don't moralize about it with the fervor that the GOP reserves for it. The GOP act as though it's all down to moral failing; that a "Just Say No" approach and a great love of Jeeeesus will solve all problems.

In reality, the issues of addiction are far more complex, and the issues of recreational use of a weed that grows in the ground...well, that's an argument for another day.