Your Legislators At Work: the 21st Century Bill of Idiots

Saw this on PageOne, and couldn't believe it. "House Bill 253 -- A 21st Century Bill of Rights." Clicked the link to see if it was a joke, and guess what: it's a real, filed, this-could-actually-become-law bill.

Here's what these idiot legislators are proposing:

• No law or rule can compel anyone to participate in a health care system -- it's okay for your car, but not for you. We LIKE having thousands of Kentuckians with no health care.


• No law or rule can compel anyone to provide abortion services -- even though, of course, it's a legal medical procedure. Next year we're going to pass a law to let any medical provider choose not to treat a patient based on the patient's religion.


• No law or rule shall prevent the severing of coal -- so coal companies can take coal out of the ground any way they want, no matter who it harms or endangers. I hear one coal company is looking at tactical nuclear weapons if this passes.


• Require city, county, and state governmental agencies to assist in the advancement of energy policy, science, technology, and innovation using Kentucky coal and other Kentucky-based energy resources -- so now TARC has to switch over to coal-burning buses, and Louisville police have to use coal-burning cars. Natural gas is better and cheaper? Too bad -- you've got to use coal.


• Declare no law or rule shall prevent any person, employer, teacher, or city, county, or state government official from posting the Ten Commandments as part of a display of historic documents -- of course, we don't care if you OBEY them, or if you're unethical as hell, or if you divorce your wife while she's recovering from cancer; we just want that framed piece of paper up in the courthouse.

Never mind that this state is facing a budget shortfall of historic proportions. Never mind that we are falling behind our neighbors faster and faster, or that we lead the nation in child abuse deaths, smoking deaths, lung cancer, and colon cancer. Never mind that our unemployment rate is 10th in the nation, and is worse than any of our neighbors.

No, by God, we're going to focus on the REAL issues facing this great state: protecting coal and putting up papers in courthouses.

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[Bruce]

And, if you want to know the names of the idiots that filed this, here you go:

David Floyd -- District 50 -- Bardstown
Brad Montell -- District 58 -- Shelbyville
Jim DeCesare -- District 21 -- Rockfield
David Osborne -- District 59 -- Prospect
Sal Santoro -- District 60 -- Florence
Addia Wuchner -- District 66 -- Florence