{"id":14676,"date":"2015-02-08T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T20:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14676"},"modified":"2015-02-08T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T20:50:32","slug":"last-weeks-nutjob-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/last-weeks-nutjob-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Nutjob Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how nuts InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0208Tillis\"New GOP Senator: Food workers must be free not to wash their hands!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amongst the outstanding freshman class of Senators is one Thom Tillis, a Republican who bills himself as a "free market conservative" from the great state of North Carolina. He thinks health and hygiene laws are a little overblown and are a good example of government over-reach. He told a story this week during a speech at the Bipartisan Policy Center about how he was having latte with a friend at Starbucks recently when inspiration struck. Why should people who serve food be required to wash their hands after using the bathroom? It\u2019s just this sort of onerous regulation that is killing American business.<\/p>\n

So, perfect timing and soiled finger right on the pulse of the whole public health zeitgeist right now, what with the measles outbreak and the flu busting out. How \u2018bout a little fecal dusting with your latte? As Jon Stewart suggested<\/a>, maybe we could get a cholera epidemic going here. Boy, that\u2019d be good for business!<\/p>\n

Tillis has a solution at the ready, though. Restaurants would just have to put up a sign saying they do not require employees to wash their hands, and then the free market would just work its magic.<\/p>\n

So amused was he at his own cleverness that he showed not one glimmer of recognition that this would also be a kind of regulation\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Dang!  Watch out for Republicooties!!<\/font><\/p>\n

This is just the first of six nutjob Republican moments from last week alone.  Click through for the other five.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how nuts InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. New GOP Senator: Food workers must be […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}