Get a load of this wingnut horseshiz filed by David Floyd, Jim DeCesare, David Osborne and Sal Santoro, for it will blow your mind:
HB 253
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky, adopting a 21st Century Bill of Rights.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to require the Kentucky General Assembly to provide a reasonable period of time for public review and comment prior to the final enactment of any appropriation or revenue measure; require city, county, and state governmental and quasi-governmental agencies to use technology and make public information accessible via electronic media; declare no law or rule shall compel any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system; declare no law or rule shall compel any person, employer, or health care provider to provide abortion services; declare that no law or rule shall prevent the severing of coal and 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; 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; declare no law or rule shall compel any law-abiding person to surrender firearms or infringe upon the lawful possession and use of firearms; and to claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States for the people of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Bet you never thought you’d see a single bill that was anti-tax, pro-gun, pro-coal, anti-health care, anti-environment, anti-choice and full-on religious mess, did you?
Now, go clean up your vomit.
What is it, Kentucky? Why the hell do you continue to elect these embarrassments? Why do you want to give them our tax dollars? Jesus H.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Belknap Banquo // Jan 14, 2010 at 11:35 am
Has as much a chance of passage as Hillary Clinton getting a Maxim cover. Couldn’t help but notice that Osborne is a slot parlor supporter and, ummmm, no mention of the evils of gambling machinery. Kind of like Bill Bennett with his Book of (Selective) Virtues.
2 michael // Jan 14, 2010 at 11:36 am
With Kentucky at the back of the pack in nearly every important category do our leaders really need to be spending time on this nonsense? How about legislation to fix our grim present or brighten our cloudy future.
3 bestmid // Jan 14, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Sad, hypocritical, evil time-wasting buncha losers who don’t live in the real world.
4 tbrauch // Jan 14, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Interesting thought… suppose this were to pass. It forces the state and cities to use coal, essentially. The federal government has the right to tax, per the constitution. Suppose the feds decide to impose a $100 per pound tax on coal use.
I realize all of this is very hypothetical, but in the age of energy credit and carbon offsets and such, it’s not too far out to imagine a time when high carbon yield energy sources are taxed at rates to make them unaffordable.
5 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jan 14, 2010 at 1:06 pm
This is ridiculous and should be called the 21st Century Bill of Edicts. The conservatives who think this is a grand idea, probably wouldn’t be too keen on libels mandating the polar opposite position on the laundry list of mandates.
I think this more reflects the intellect of some of the legislators in Frankfort.
6 James R. // Jan 14, 2010 at 1:19 pm
I do not blame these small minded representatives as much as I do the ones of us who continue sending these small minded people to Frankfort.
I recently was at a small grocery store in rural Indiana and the 20 year old cashier was telling her bagger friend that she found out who the Vice President was today at school. I looked at her and said you did not know who the Vice President is and she responded no.
It is this type of ignorance from people that is simply amazing. Everyone should know the President and VP, whether you like them or not.
this is how these small minded people keep getting elected to Frankfort.
So lets blame the public not them!
7 tbrauch // Jan 14, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Now, now, James R… let’s not judge too quickly. I remember just over a year ago when a certain governor had no idea what the VP did. Are you really that surprised that a rural bag girl doesn’t know who the VP is?
8 Capt Jack // Jan 14, 2010 at 9:35 pm
It sounds like you’re all scared of what real Kentuckians want. It’s not about D’s and R’s, it’s about Liberlism versue Conservatism. Kentucky as whold believes in Conservatism. Get out of your bubbles in Lexington, Lousiville and Frankfort and get in touch with the real KENTUCKY!!!!!!
9 Bruce Maples // Jan 14, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Oh Capt, Capt, Capt — do you represent the real Kentucky? Or just your own version of that mythical place?
I enjoy it when someone uses the word “real” — it almost always signifies that the person has no good argument. As in, “your team doesn’t play real basketball” or “you didn’t attend a real school.” It’s a position that can’t be attacked: first the speaker defines what “real” is, then proceeds to claim it as their own.
Hate to break it to you there, Jack, but there are thousands of Kentuckians who are liberal, progressive, left-leaning, and generally to the left, and they are just as “real” as anyone can be. By claiming that they are not real, you are just a few steps from claiming that they aren’t human. And we know where that can lead, don’t we?
The only “real” I see in your comment is this: you are real wrong.
10 jake // Jan 14, 2010 at 10:45 pm
Bruce: They represent Frankfort, since that’s where their comment came from.
11 The Highlander // Jan 15, 2010 at 8:15 am
In Kentucky there’s no lifeguard at the gene pool!!!
12 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jan 15, 2010 at 8:41 am
If you are conservative in the “real” KENTUCKY!!!!!…oops forgot a !, you don’t have to make an persuadable argument that your position is better than the liberal one, you can just pass an edict in Frankfort.
To me this a lazy way to push your beliefs on someone who may disagree. This is nothing more than a special interest bill.
If you believe in those things, make an intelligent and persuadable argument as why they should be embraced. You have no right to force someone to believe in what you believe is important.
HB 253 is a stump speech, not a legitimate piece of legislation. It belongs at Fancy Farm and no Frankfort.
13 jake // Jan 15, 2010 at 8:48 am
If anybody in Kentucky was actually “conservative” ?? Then we wouldn’t be in the fiscal shape we’re in.
14 Mark H (Not Hebert) // Jan 15, 2010 at 9:15 am
That’s the difference between a conservative and a religious conservative. Unfortunately the later feels that the former isn’t really a conservative, without the modifier.
15 tbrauch // Jan 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm
“Get out of your bubbles in Lexington, Lousiville and Frankfort and get in touch with the real KENTUCKY!!!!!!”
Just because I’m a numbers kind of guy, let’s look at some from the US Census.
Louisville MSA: 1,244,696
Lexington MSA: 453,424
Frankfort MSA: 114,485
TOTAL: 1,812,605
Kentucky Total: 4,041,769
So what you are saying is that 45% of the population of the state doesn’t mean squat when it comes to real KENTUCKY!!!!
I’ll admit, 45% isn’t a majority, but if we add in Northern Kentucky, Bowling Green, Owensboro, or Henderson (any one of those four will work) it cracks the 50% mark. So basically, the majority of Kentucky doesn’t represent what most of Kentucky is really about. That seems really odd to me.
16 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Jan 15, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Even if the sponsors of this measures call themselves “conservatives”, making wild changes to the state constitution is not in any way a conservative act.
On top of that, with so many subjects covered in this crap, it’s guaranteed for non-passage. So, it’s apparently just a campaign message disguised as legislation.
In other words, they’re wasting our time, and thus our tax money with trying to push nonsense like this.
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