NC General Assembly First-Day Bill Filings -- GOP is still batshit crazy

[HillWilliam]

(Cross-posted from the NC forum)

I checked my email early this morning and found a note from Equality-NC with a report on an early bill-filing from Rep Paul Stamm (R-Wake). Stamm, you may recall as the only member of the NC House to vote against cross-burning, continued to show his true priorities with his first-day filing.

Was it for middle-class tax relief? No.

Was it for an increase in the minimum wage? No.

Was it for any benefit to NC schools? No.

Was it to give incentives for renewable or green energy? No.

Was it to keep NC jobs from going overseas? No.

Was it to help stimulate NC's lagging economy? No.

Oh, no, it was none of these. The most important and pressing issue on Mr Stamm's mind was absolutely none of the above. Far outweighing any of these, apparently of far, far greater consequence, of much greater and pressing need is the urgent and immediate, first-order business to amend the state constitution to ensure that GLBT people will never have the right to marry.

You heard it right. Mr Stamm feels that it is of far more extreme, even dire importance to promote bigotry than it is to get our economy rolling and our citizens working again.

That just paints the picture in full living color exactly where the NC GOP priorities lie.

"Sad" and "pitiful" don't even cover it, and "out of touch" doesn't seem to do it justice.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. No more reaching across the aisle!

The GOP is the enemy.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

3. But we need to reach across the aisle

in order to put them in headlocks and apply noogies vigorously.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Well, when you put it that way...

[DarkTirade]

11. ... best response EVAR!!!1!

:thumbsup:

[HillWilliam]

4. Every time we've reached across to the right with an olive branch

they've snatched it out our hands and beaten us with it.

Fuck 'em. I'm beat-out. Next one comes at me gets an ass-whuppin'. Betcherass this post will become an LTE tonight, too. I'm on a tear now. I will not stop until the entire GOP is dust. I've had entirely too much of them.

[bluedawg12]

8. There is no olive branch for these pigs.

Unless it's used for an @ss whuppin'. :evilgrin:

(But, they would enjoy that too much I suspect. :eyes: )

[dusmcj]

2. maybe he needs an intern on his staff. ba-dump /nt

[Jamastiene]

5. What an asshole.

I hope the NC Dems fight him back.

[littlebit]

9. This comes up just about every year.

It is always voted down. It has about a zero chance of passing as long as the Dems are in control.

[bluedawg12]

7. As long as these policies get votes, these political

whores are going to play it to the hilt to stay in power.

The voters need to stop rewarding this bigotry, but they in turn, are being driven from the pulpit.

[RetiredTrotskyite]

10. That's THE Problem, bluedawg

We NEED to get the tax free status yanked out from under any church that spews hate. You wanna spew that crap, fine. It's a free country... it just doesn't mean you get to do so for free. Freedom costs and it is time they start paying.