Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup'

[kpete]

Dems Fire Back At GOP Proposals To Drug Test Jobless: 'You Pee In The Cup'

The past year has seen an unprecedented wave of Republican bills to drug test the poor and jobless. It also saw a smaller wave of Democratic bills that said in response, "No, you pee in the cup."

One of the most recent retorts comes from Georgia, where last month Democratic state Rep. Scott Holcomb introduced a bill requiring members of the local legislature to prove they're not Legislating Under the Influence. Holcomb told HuffPost he came up with the idea because he was struck by a bill from his Republican colleagues to drug test welfare applicants.

"I was really struck by how awful it was," he said. "I wanted to bring some attention to it."

Democrats in Florida, Ohio and Tennessee have done the same thing. Tennessee state representative G.A. Hardaway said his bill to test lawmakers was inspired by constituents annoyed with a Republican welfare-drug-testing bill. "They said to me, 'how do we know y'all aren't on drugs?'" Hardaway told local TV station WMC-TV. "I thought, well, you don't."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/07/unemployment_n_1189989.html

[RKP5637]

1. Excellent idea. In fact all politicians running for and in office should

be drug tested. If impaired, they are a menace to society. I bet some very interesting results would turn up!!!

[zbdent]

2. Also, make extremely anti-gay GOPers swear on a stack of Bibles that they have

not now, nor ever had, any homosexual thoughts or tendencies.

And get it on film, to be played at the next holiday party after the person is caught with his pants around his ankles with another man.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep! There are some serious gay thoughts going on when one makes

'anti-gay' a central theme of their life and convictions. We've seen that demonstrated over and over again. And it's a pretty well known fact there is a strong link between homophobia and repressed homosexuality.

[demtenjeep]

4. I like it!

When I was student teaching, they brought the drug dogs in. No student lockers or cars were "hit on" but three teacher's cars had very strong positive hits.

I had only a week left at that school. I never knew how things ended up. It was a big school with over 100 teachers.


edit to correct my mistake!

[Scuba]

5. When the recipients of corporate welfare start providing samples, I'll consider it. nt