House Discombobulates Over Booze Bill
The House worked itself into a tizzy today over legislation to legalize little Jack Daniel-like distilleries all over Tennessee. Frightened that their churchy constituents might object, wide-eyed lawmakers popped up all over the House floor to amend the bill to omit their counties from its provisions. As amended in the House, voters still must OK it in a referendum before a micro-distillery can open. But legislators just couldn't bring themselves to cast a vote involving the demon liquor and, after a ridiculous amount of hand-wringing, they tabled any action until next week. 
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Guns yes. Booze no.
TN GOPers are NO fun.
Posted On: Thursday, May. 14 2009 @ 12:41PMI know that Nashville might as well be Gomorrah to the churchist crowd, and I don't have a good perspective on exactly what Tennessee's electorate looks like...
But are there really enough crazy God-botherers outside of Nashville and Memphis for elected representatives to be crapping their flannels on every issue? Is there an actual majority of people in non-urban Tennessee who see themselves as the Jesus Taliban? And do they really vote in lockstep based on what the C of C minister sermonizes about?
Or is it just a very vocal, very whiny minority of the electorate who believe that the Devil has some sort of lobbying firm operating out of the old Castner's building, and it's their duty to find the Godly side of practially every single resolution that comes before the Tennessee legislature?
I know they're out there, because I read the Tennessean comments section, and I see them try to bend every story to fit the culture war. I suppose this is what's driving Campfield and the other wingnut champion to do whatever it is they do. But there's no way that a majority of Tennesseans think like freeper theocrats. When are we going to show that we're fed up with these jackholes? How do they exert such power, when they can't possibly be a majority of Tennessee citizens?
Posted On: Thursday, May. 14 2009 @ 2:06PMIs there an actual majority of people in non-urban Tennessee who see themselves as the Jesus Taliban?
Yes. A super majority, in fact.
When are we going to show that we're fed up with these jackholes?
We're not.
Posted On: Thursday, May. 14 2009 @ 2:41PM"Yes. A super majority, in fact."
And the walls of their single wides are very, very, thin.
Posted On: Saturday, May. 16 2009 @ 11:09AM
