The absurdity of dealing with Republicans grows every day. Here’s a snippet from a House Oversight & Government Reform hearing today:
“With all due respect to our witnesses from the Association of Reptile Keepers, repealing a so-called job-killing regulation to allow more pythons, boa constrictors and anacondas into the United States is not the kind of bold, bipartisan solution Americans are looking for to help the economy,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member of the oversight panel.
They’re talking about a proposed regulation from Department of the Interior that seeks to contain the spread of gigantic constricting snakes to the Everglades, where the things literally eat alligators, herons, egrets, and anything else that doesn’t watch its back. The Republicans say this is part of a “tsunami” of regulations that is choking off the economy.
I don’t know how Elijah Cummings can keep his composure.
This snake business reminds me of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmHN3JtyUXg
sssssssssssssssnake!
I’ve been wondering that about Cummings for awhile now, especially since he has to deal with the crook known as Issa.
The halls of Congress need to insert a regiment of white suited fellows with tidy white straight jackets and keep a line of parked commitment ambulances at the curb.
As well as a hefty supply of Thorazine.
Let one anaconda loose in the Capital and you’ll never have a second hearing like today’s.
The visuals on that one are, well, I’m picturing Darrell Issa wide stancing it when a boa slides into the cubicle and Issa flees. Too much.
No snake would harm Issa. Professional courtesy! (rimshot)
Perhaps we have been wrong all along. It is not RKBA. It is RKBS. It’s a constitutional thang.