Rep. Trey Radel charged with cocaine possession

[Mass]

Party of family values.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/trey-radel-cocaine-possession-100075.html

[Scuba]

1. He'll get the David Vitter treatment, not the Anthony Weiner treatment.

[bravenak]

2. Guy can't do a little blow these days?

What's the world coming to. It's not like it was crack, for goodness sakes! He just needed a pick me up, for the energy, to uh, pull himself up by his bootstraps. You don't want him to be a lazy taker, do you?

[NightWatcher]

3. I wish more of them would smoke pot, so they'd mellow the fuck out

Can you imagine anything more annoying than a repub fundie asshole all geeked up on blow

[Skidmore]

4. I loathe that smarmy,smug little creep.

That is all.

[Mass]

5. Seems Radel uses the Rob Ford defense.

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/402921281059704832/photo/1

Sorry for his family. Can we hope he realizes that there is a lot of improve in drug laws.

[Chan790]

6. The same guy that was buying Spanish-language porn sites?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/florida-trey-radel-sex-domain-gate-scandal

I particularly appreciated that one of the sites he bought was the Spanish slang term for "an ugly girl who is not too ugly to sleep with but is too ugly to introduce to your friends."

Because that's exactly the porn site nobody is going looking for.

[seveneyes]

7. Unless he pushed or voted for laws against possession

I'm not going to rail against this latest problem of his. I'd guess our last three or five Presidents have all chopped a few lines or at least had someone line it up for them. There are bigger bumps in the night to worry about.

[Mass]

8. His record is mixed

No to mandatory sentencing, which is a good idea

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/19/2971381/trey-radel-cocaine/

Radel cosponsored a law that seeks to end mandatory minimum sentencing requirements that often send people to jail with a conviction no worse than drug possession. He has also spoken extensively about the need to reform the way the United States copes with its drug problems, repeating that a “war on drugs” is not the way to tackle drug issues. Here are just a couple of his comments on the topic:

but also voted for drug test for welfare recipients

Radel also voted for a House bill that would have required all recipients of SNAP (known more widely as food stamps) to undergo drug testing.

an he opposes legalization of marijuana.

[ProSense]

9. "voted for drug test for welfare recipients"

Fucker!

[seveneyes]

10. That's bad enough for me

Here's to hoping he gets some time in the pokey to think about his karma from knot head voting.

[hatrack]

12. Fuck him, party of family values drug warriors my pale white ASS

[Major Hogwash]

11. Oh shit, he's going to blow his new job as a Congressman!!!