The Truth About the Republican War on Caterpillars

[kpete]

The Truth About the Republican War on Caterpillars
APR 5 2012, 5:18 PM ET 9


RNC Chairman Reince Priebus (left) and a caterpillar (right). Reuters

"If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars," Reince Priebus told Bloomberg Television. "It's a fiction."

Under the guise of aiding the agriculture industry, Republicans and their allies in Washington have been waging a long-running campaign to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from limiting bug-killing pesticides. Last year, GOP Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas authored a letter, signed by several others in his party, calling on Democrats to "address the continued regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency that is a growing concern of farmers, ranchers, foresters and agribusinesses throughout the nation" by bringing up their bill to ease pesticide regulations. This obvious attempt to run roughshod over the rights of many-legged herbivores everywhere was laughably justified as a matter of "public health as we enter mosquito season."

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Republicans may claim that they have no anti-caterpillar agenda -- that they're just trying to protect people and plants from being bitten, that they're merely the victims of a liberal media that sympathizes with the radical bugs'-rights lobby. But the truth is clear, and it's nothing new: Republicans just don't care about caterpillars.

Need any more proof? Tom DeLay, the onetime leader of the GOP House majority, began his career as an exterminator.

the rest:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-truth-about-the-republican-war-on-caterpillars/255522/

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UPDATE:
BREAKING: Cantor's district overrun w/caterpillars

If you've been outside the past few days, you may have noticed a lot of worm-like creatures hanging from the trees. Some people call them a nuisance because they stick to everything and seems like their numbers have increased with the early spring temperatures.

Some joggers and dog walkers say the insects are unwelcome visitors.

They're all over my hair and my clothes," said Richmond resident Cheryl Miller.

"I was out doing yard work the other day and they were all over the place," added Andrew Dickson, who also lives in Richmond.

http://www.nbc12.com/story/17269257/caterpillar-invasion-called-a-nuisance

[Smilo]

1. yeah I bet they stand there next to those caterpillars feeling quite

inferior - because they can't measure up to said caterpillar no way - no how.

[Cleita]

2. Those caterpillars become butterflies.

However, this is another insult to women. I guess in their misogynistic minds women are no better than a lower life form.

[DocMac]

3. It's always in the back of their heads.

CONTROL

[EC]

4. They just hate

butterflies.