First it was the Republican war on women. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, if we apply to Reince Priebus’s analogy the lefty logic Sarah painstakingly explained here, then Republicans are also at war on caterpillars!
It must be true, or it wouldn’t have been in the Atlantic:
…the war on caterpillars and other innocent insects, it turns out, is not a fiction at all.
Under the guise of aiding the agriculture industry, Republicans and their allies in Washington have been waging a long-running campaign to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting bug-killing pesticides. Last year, GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas authored a letter, signed by several others in his party, calling on Democrats to “address the continued regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency that is a growing concern of farmers, ranchers, foresters and agribusinesses throughout the nation” by bringing up their bill to ease pesticide regulations. This obvious attempt to run roughshod over the rights of many-legged herbivores everywhere was laughably justified as a matter of “public health as we enter mosquito season.”
The clincher is that Tom DeLay was an exterminator!
Bad Republicans! Bad! Bad! Bad!
This crawls calls for a caterpillar solidarity song.
Why, I’d trample on Rachel Corrie to see you!
Please don’t hurt me, Mr. DeLay!