This Week in the Laboratories of Democracy
By Charles P. Pierce
at 11:54AM
... The Iowa Republicans — the people who keep electing racist nutball Steve King to Congress, and who, we were assured, had to be absolutely vital to the process of electing our next president — have loaded up their tray at the All U Can Eat Batshit Buffet.
It supports a Personhood Amendment designed after the one that was too damn crazy for Mississippi ...
It would very much like there to be virtually no federal or state regulations at all on agriculture, and it would just as soon not allow cows to vote — 2.11: We support the proper care and treatment of animals. We oppose laws or regulations elevating the well-being of animals to a similar status as the rights of people ...
There's also some barely disguised homophobia in a passage opposing hate crime laws — We oppose the unconstitutional concept of a "hate crime" since it is an attempt to criminalize the reasonable actions of persons who oppose the granting of "special status" or "privileges" to defined classes of people. — and an apparent call to roll back federal anti-discrimination statutes to a point somewhere around 1957 ...
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/curt-schilling-video-game-company-9118843
