Pic Of The Moment: Pro Tip: If You're A Congressman Who Votes To Drug Test Food Stamp Recipients...

[EarlG]

Coke-Busted GOP Congressman Just Voted to Drug-Test Food Stamp Users

Boehner on Cocaine: One Law For Us, Another For Them

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[TBF]

1. I've always said if they drug-test aid recipients it has to start at the top

with all government employees (including the president/Congress/Supreme Court), government contractors etc. Either you tax everyone who is paid with tax $$$ or you let this go. The testing cost alone is hardly going to pass a needs-benefit analysis.

It's just another way to slam poor people.

[adirondacker]

14. +++++! I've worked in dangerous occupations and the biggest safety hazard is sleep depravation and

fatigue from long hours. That, and people fogged out from alcohol hangovers.

[SCVDem]

2. We need a poster of hypocrites

Add all the politicos who fought against something only to be caught doing that same thing.

Melman, Craig, Vitter, the anti abortion guy who wanted his gf to get an abortion,cabana guy with his escort, Rush, etc.

I've had too much of this lying, deceitful bullshit!

[avaistheone1]

17. We do!

[HockeyMom]

3. He would have been my representative

if my section (Dem Minority area) of Naples, Florida, hadn't been re-districted to Miami. I was actually happy when it happened. Even more so now.

On to the next? Getting rid of the Drug Testing, Fraud Governor!!!!

[TlalocW]

4. On a lighter note...

He should consider hanging out with Vitter. They could probably have some wild times together.

TlalocW

[adirondacker]

15. "snort"

[Enthusiast]

5. I hope David Letterman and John Stewart are all over this.

I believe they will be. Letterman has been having a ball with the "crack smoking mayor or Toronto".

[valerief]

33. Oh, yeah. This kind of news is "crack" for comedians! nt

[Initech]

52. Stephen Colbert ripped that guy a new one last night.

[Enthusiast]

53. Yes, and I enjoyed it.

[ctsnowman]

6. K & R

[Turbineguy]

7. Hypocrisy

It's a bit like irony.

Or maybe dickheady.

[Plucketeer]

8. This makes sense to me...

"Gee, if I - a person of stature - do it, everyone else must do it as well!"

[hobbit709]

9. hypocrite and republican are interchangeable terms.

[mdbl]

36. Couldn't have said it better!

Thanks.

[Madmiddle]

10. Boenhner's story

follows that he grew up in a bar. So, there's no doubt he knows about coke and its effects as well as how to find it and much much more. There are no innocent people in DC!!!

[rdharma]

11. Cartegena, Colombia......F8ck yeah!

His favorite vacation spot....... I wonder why?

[Botany]

12. Radel wants to "continue serving this country."

Radel, 37, vowed that he will "come out of this stronger" and told Judge Robert Tignor
that he wants to "continue serving this country."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/11/20/trey-radel-cocaine-sting-congress/3649619/

BTW Trey sure looks like he has "coke tracks" under his nose.

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

16. Serve his country?

How about in prison!

[QuestForSense]

24. Best suggestion I've heard all day!

[workinclasszero]

42. Who knew that serving the country equals

snorting coke on the public's dime??

[TeeYiYi]

46. He looks older than 37. ..nt

TYY

[tavernier]

48. Serve his country? I think that's admirable

Four years in the army, in Afghanistan.

[chknltl]

13. So do you suppose the good Congressman will support...

.... drug testing Congressmen?

[sinkingfeeling]

18. How about drug testing for anybody taking $174,000 a year from taxpayers?

[SansACause]

19. usual hypocrisy

Reminds me fervent anti-gay crusaders who are hiding in the closet.

[Scurrilous]

20. K & R

[0rganism]

21. how about we drug test all congress critters?

betcha a few wouldn't pass and some of those would be the loudest loudmouth GOPers.

[Ganja Ninja]

22. He shouldn't be kicked out of congress for using drugs.

He should be kicked out for gross hypocrisy.

[Tikki]

23. I am surprised he pleaded guilty…thought he would say he was doing research or trying to relate...

to Food Stamp recipients.
What an ass.

Tikki

[pacalo]

25. Karma is doing its job.

[Glassunion]

26. What's the big deal?

He voted so that those who receive government income be tested for drugs. It's not like he receives government inco... OOHHhhh!

[Cha]

27. Exactly.. use your fuckin' head.

rofl

thanks EarlG!

[DallasNE]

28. Hardly Busted

More like David Vitters, who had to endure a few days of bad publicity and then everything returned to normal, including re-election.

Radel got one year of probation -- barely a slap on the wrist. Compare and contrast that with what happens to ordinary Americans caught in possession. Once again the real story is the two tier justice system we have here in America -- it sucks.

[SunSeeker]

30. Exactly. If this happened to a food stamp recipient they'd lose their food stamps.

This asshole still gets to eat...at the public trough.

[SHRED]

29. Coke isn't a felony?

[DallasNE]

43. Compare And Contrast With What Happened To Marion Barry, Mayor Of DC A Few Years Ago. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

50. Not the amount in question

In DC, the amount he was buying adds up to a misdemeanor.

[bearssoapbox]

31. In the real world,he'd be fired.

Yet another reason to drug test politicians. Then drug and alcohol test before they go into session, especially if they are going to vote on any type of legislation. If they test positive, they can't vote or have any say in the writing of the bill, law, etc.,,,



His eyes are a lovely shade of red though.

[Alkene]

40. I like that idea: a legislative sobriety checkpoint.

A drug and alcohol screening process inked to access to participation in legislation, i.e., require proof that you're clean and sober before you can enter the workplace, because you are, after all, inherently untrustworthy.

[bearssoapbox]

44. I would think that making rules or laws that decide the fate of a country

should be in the hands of someone that is in control of themselves and not drunk or drugged up.

As for the abnormal mental state of some of them when they are sober???

[Iwillnevergiveup]

32. Poor Florida

except for Alan Grayson, of course.

[Agschmid]

34. Great pic!

[ck4829]

35. Drug test Congress!

[jberryhill]

37. To be fair....

It's not like he was applying for food stamps.

[blkmusclmachine]

38. ,

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[Pterodactyl]

39. I'd be in favor of a drug tests for all of Congress.

If they fail, they can take away access to classified material. Or maybe even publish the results!

[workinclasszero]

41. We should demand random drug testing on all congressmen and senators!

Fucking hypocrites are snorting blow and doing God knows what else while they pass laws harassing poor people for doing what they are doing!

We need to boot all these assholes off the free health care for life gravy train also. Let the pricks cover themselves and their families on the open market like everyone else!

[Lobo27]

45. Fuck him...

Makes me sad that there is people with weaker offenses and they are rotting away in prison.

[nyquil_man]

47. Silly Congressman. Cocaine is for stockbrokers. nt

[eridani]

49. Rep. Trey Radel to take a leave of absence

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/rep-trey-radel-expected-to-face-judge-on-charges-of-cocaine-possession/2013/11/20/b029caba-51ce-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html?wpisrc=al_comboPN


Rep. Trey Radel (R-Fla.) has announced that he will take a leave of absence from office and will donate his salary to charity.

Radel had pleaded guilty to a cocaine charge and was sentenced to one year of probation earlier Wednesday.

[moxybug]

51. These tea party fucks

are really ruining the good cop bad cop rountine for all the third way DLC types.