As you may or may not know, the US House of Reps passed a funding bill that defunded DEA raids on legal medical marijuana and hemp in states where they are legal (22 so far for med pot IIRC). If this passes the Senate and the President signs it that will make it difficult for Republicans (who represent the majority of prohibitionists in the House and are the party – in theory – of fiscal rectitude) to justify increasing government spending.
OTOH a Republican not in the prohibitionist wing of the party had this to say:
“The heart and soul of the Republican party is that pro-freedom, individual philosophy that Reagan talked about,” said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), the primary Republican pushing the amendment. “I think that what we’ve got now and what we have here in the Republican vote last night were people who took a lot of those words and the philosophy of Ronald Reagan to heart.”
OTOH we have Republicans like this commenting on the FBI desire to hire pot heads if they can do anti-cyber criminal work.
…Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., wondered whether the nation’s top cop was signaling support for marijuana use.
“Do you understand that that could be interpreted as one more example of leadership in America dismissing the seriousness of marijuana use?” Sessions asked Comey during a Judiciary Committee hearing. “And that could undermine our ability to convince young people not to go down a dangerous path?”
And there are fools like this working hard to further toxify the Republican brand.
“You can’t be right for America if you’re wrong with God,” Robertson said, according to The Times-Picayune. And, if “you want to turn the Republican party around, get godly,” he told the crowd.
Robertson, a late addition to the conference schedule, “spoke in a somewhat meandering fashion for about half an hour,” The Washington Post reported. He said he was surprised to be asked to speak, but he rallied Republicans as he touched on guns and his opposition to the separation of church and state.
That was Phil “Duck Dynasty” Robertson. Who has just done his best to reduce the number of Jews, Buddhists, and Hindus voting and contributing to the Republican Party.
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Thing about this that most disgusts me isn’t his repulsive opinions, it’s that he got a ducking standing ovation from the Repugnican audience. Mainstream Reps want my vote they’re going to have to keep assclowns like him tied up in the back room.
Does he think god will fix elections for republicans?
All they have to do is discriminate to gain his favor?
You mean to tell me that the Republicans have the know-nothing, simpleton, religious fundamentalist vote sewn up? Who knew?
A recurring metaphor in Christianity is one of sheep and shepherds, with god being the shepherd and the believers the sheep. Of course, in the everyday world of sheep, they get fleeced and slaughtered. So the metaphor is indeed accurate as religion fleeces them for their time and money and slaughters the self in favor of dumbed-down, idiotic groupthink.
Religion is organized superstition.
Let me commend those legislators who voted to defund DEA raids on legal MMJ operations. I’m not sure how Congress defunds a LEO action, but this vote certainly is a sign that national legislators finally understand which way the wind is blowing on this issue. Perhaps you can now take the next step and remove cannabis from Schedule 1.
Slowly but surely, our long national nightmare that is the WOD is coming to an end.
Ummmm…haters gotta hate, I guess. You guys got what you wanted out of the Republican-controlled House, and you can’t do anything but complain because an out-and-proud Christian is a TV celebrity .
Personally, I’m getting the popcorn ready for when the Democrat-controlled Senate shoots this bill down. All the exploding heads are going to look like the 4th of July.
Neil,
Pride is fine. It is the intolerance “opposition to the separation of church and state” that bothers me. Not to mention their rabid support for criminals (prohibition).
BTW if we are going to unite church and state which religion would get to be dominant? I suppose we could settle it with a civil war as was done in previous ages. I look forward to blasphemy becoming a civil crime. NOT.
It also seems rather intolerant to me to turn a medical issue into a police matter.
IMO the Rs – if they focused on fiscal issues and limiting government – couldn’t lose an election.
Celebrities say lots of things. That doesn’t mean they’re setting policy.
Neil,
But they are advertising. You would think that media people would understand this.
In my experience Duck represents a significant portion of the Republican Party.
And look at the vote Democrats 10 to 1 in favor. Republicans 3 to 1 against.
The country’s opposition to prohibition is running around 55%. And it is still rising. Evidently the Democrats can read the polls. The Republicans can not.