Seriousness
Over the years, Tom Humphrey has said a lot of dumb things. But this one is probably the dumbest. He’s addressing the TN assembly’s tendency to introduce and debate stupid laws. But, says Tom, that’s OK. They’re just blowing off steam. You know, just a little harmless fun with serious real world effects.
Look, sparky, when these idiots pass dumb laws (and some of them do pass), those laws have real world consequences that affect the citizens of this state. And that is not a laughing matter. And blowing off steam is not a good excuse. It’s ridiculous and you enabling that behavior is worse.
February 28th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Way back in high school I was allowed to be a legislative intern in the NC House for a week. Fortunately this was before the Lewinsky era.
Anyway, among the “steam releases” I recall was an amendment that, in one line, canceled the entire bill to which it was attached. The Representatives laughed and laughed over that one as the Clerk read it aloud. Then they almost passed it. “Ha, Ha!” as Nelson Munz would say.
February 28th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
I lit him up and he posted on KV that he was joking around and, well, it didn’t work.
February 28th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
What do you expect from someone that writes:
“the U.S. Constitution is fairly clear that states cannot override the federal government in most things”
and probably thinks it is accurate?
March 6th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Heh… yeah, passing stupid laws isn’t anything new to TN:
http://www.stupidlaws.com/laws/united-states/tennessee/