Toe sucker Dick Morris: "We should drug test every high school student in America"

[Very_Boring_Name]

Dick Morris calls Ron Paul ‘horrific’

If only Dick Morris would tell us how he really feels about libertarians.

During a radio interview with Peter Schiff, a former economic adviser to Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, Dick Morris thought he’d be talking about his new book, and seemed annoyed when he found himself discussing trends within the Republican Party.

Schiff, who said he noticed that nearly a third of the people he met at CPAC came from the “Ron Paul/Gary Johnson wing” of the GOP, with the rest in the more traditional conservative camp of Mitt Romney, asked Morris how he thought this would play out in the presidential race.

“I strongly oppose Ron Paul,” Morris said. “I think he’s horrific. He wants us to end the War on Drugs. He wants us to end the War on Terror.”

“Do you think we’re winning the war on drugs?” Schiff interjected.

“No, because we’re not fighting it,” Morris replied.

“We’re not fighting it?” Schiff asked. “We don’t have enough laws against drugs?”

“No,” Morris replied. “We should drug test every high school student. We should drug test everybody that gets a student loan. Anybody that’s using drugs should not get a government student loan.”

Full article: http://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/0311/Dick_Morris_calls_Ron_Paul_horrific.html

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I'm speechless. Are these guys really this stupid?

[valerief]

1. Smaller government. Yeah. nt

[jp11]

6. So small it will always be there recording everything you do for someone else to pass judgement on.

[TheDebbieDee]

24. I'll bet he owns stock in a drug-testing company or two!

[Ohio Joe]

2. Theres some smaller govt for you

These lunatics are unreal.

[Initech]

3. Yeah, where are they gonna get the money from?

All this talk of cutting government programs and he wants to expand one that doesn't make sense and is a direct violation of the fourth amendment. :crazy:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

10. +1000

Where are they gonna get the money from?

[Frustratedlady]

29. Student loans. They look for every excuse to stop students from

getting any help. That starts at Head Start and works its way thru graduate school.

[Bozita]

14. Easy. ... They'll pay for it with another tax cut.

When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

[HughBeaumont]

26. Look at the only technological advances made in "Idiocracy" -

ALL in intrusive, National ID, Big Brother Bullshit. Everything else went to extreme seed.

[Initech]

31. Hot Naked Chicks And World Report: Shit Sucks!

:rofl:

[hobbit709]

32. Idiocracy is a documentary.

[jmowreader]

48. The sad thing is, you're right

And the real worrisome thing is, there is a LOT going on in Idiocracy you don't see. Yes, 95 percent of the world in that movie is comprised of idiots--but the people who set up the whole system behind the scenes aren't. Idiots cannot fathom the need for a nationwide network of bar-code-tattoo scanners that can track the movements of everyone even in private businesses like Costco, but they have one. Idiots didn't design the House of Particular Individuals (the name of the prison Joe escaped from).

[Johonny]

36. we can't have oversight of the environment or wall street

because it's too expensive, but drug testing everyone in high school, that we can afford! What has a bigger positive impact in my life clean water and air or finding out what high school student gets high?

[SolutionisSolidarity]

50. They'd probably charge the student's parents directly in HS.

They could just add it to the student loan for college. Republicans would love that; people would be forced to pay increasingly high fees just to make use of the public education they are entitled to. Even better, the proceeds of this wealth transfer would go directly to their campaign contributors in the drug testing industry.

It's sad how easily Republican policy just writes itself. Just imagine the most asinine, backward way to deal with a problem you can come up with, and there you are,

[anarch]

4. why stop there?

Drug test everyone! Make oxygen illegal! Lock all U.S. citizens up, immediately!

[AKDavy]

5. Yes, they really are that stupid

[reggie the dog]

37. What would they do in Alaska

ok, an 18 year old fails for cannabis in Alaska, which is legal for them according to state law, what would the punishment be? In addition states could also do their own student loans to get around the fact that the feds would cut you out of their student loan for using drugs.

[AKDavy]

44. It's a little more complicated than that

It isn't exactly legal in Alaska, as much as the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that possession and use of small amounts (a few ounces or plants) is protected by the privacy provisions of the Alaska State Constitution. While state authorities don't usually prosecute for small amounts of marijuana under state drug laws, they still have the option, which they exercise whenever it suits their purpose, of turning people over to federal officials for prosecution. Federally-funded or regulated programs that require drug testing are no different here. For example, if I work for a DOT-regulated industry and fail a DOT-required drug test I still lose my job.

And I'm not sure if the marijuana court ruling applies for similar drugs. For example, on my property several of the four species of "magic mushrooms" growing in Alaska grow naturally. Under state law, if I pick one I've committed one felony; if I consume some of it I've committed a second felony; if I share it with someone I've committed a third felony. It's a little hard for a libertarian anarchist to respect such laws, and I don't.

[reggie the dog]

54. the feds don't prosecute

unless you have kilos. Ravin stands even though the cops dont want to admit it. Have you ever known a person prosecuted by the feds for an ounce? you live there so perhaps you know more than i do, i have just read about it, i taught ravin v alaska to my students at the law school here in france

[AKDavy]

61. The feds prosecute what suits their purpose to prosecute

It doesn't take kilos. Members of our family have been prosecuted under federal law for possession of only a few ounces, and one of my son's friends was handed over to federal authorities by Fairbanks police for no reason anyone can understand except they didn't like him.

I have a personal bit of history about Ravin v Alaska. Years ago, prior to the ruling, I lied blatantly when asked during jury selection if I believed in jury nullification, just so I could get onto the jury for the trial of a young man being tried for between one and two ounces. As it turned out, I wasn't the only one, and the two of us created a hung jury by standing under "reasonable doubt" about the testimony of the Alaska State Troopers involved. The case was not retried.

I'm a "libertarian anarchist," so for me Ravin v Alaska would stand even if there were no Ravin v Alaska. Those in the legal profession don't like to admit it, but law has a long history of being shaped by the willingness of the population to violate unjust laws.

[arcane1]

7. Typical nanny-state republican n/t

[originalpckelly]

8. I say we drug test every politico.

You want to be on TV? Let's see YOU drop some urine motherfucker! You don't come back clean? Well, you're not well enough to be on TV!

[redwitch]

41. And you are automatically recalled too!

:-)

[tularetom]

9. Dick Morris is truly at the bottom of the right wing food chain

I'll bet even the other fox pundits mock him when he isn't there.

[C_U_L8R]

11. How about we IQ test every teabagging politician

How about a little geography quiz Palin?

[Autumn]

12. I think we need to drug test ANYONE who is in politics or

advises them. And while we are at it, lets test their intelligence.

[flakey_foont]

13. that's crazee talk

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

15. They want to make the government smaller so that big company like Koch can buy it.

wait a minute.... looks like they own it now.

[walldude]

16. Bill Hicks on the Drug War:

I loved when Bush came out and said, “We are losing the war against drugs.” You know what that implies? There’s a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.

[bluestateguy]

17. That would increase the dropout rate

and the truancy rate too. And be very expensive.

[Gold Metal Flake]

18. "[The Republicans want to] drug test every high school student in America"

I fixed your thread title.

[Jokinomx]

19. what an idiot! n/t

[City Lights]

20. You first, Dicky.

I'd tell you to go cheney yourself, Dicky, but you'd probably enjoy it too much. Tosser.

[Lifelong Protester]

21. Tie this meme to the republicans "Let's drug test all high school students!"

fer cripe's sake, are these people actually breathing the same oxygen layer as me?

[Drale]

22. We should drug test every elected office and

every "news" personality aka Rush or Beck every single month. I bet the majority of the Republicans would test positive every month.

[raccoon]

46. You beat me to the post! nt

[reggie the dog]

23. the poor may suffer

but middle class stoners like me who had mommy and daddy to pay the university and had parents who are pro cannabis have nothing to worry about, typical republicans, favor the favored and do all you can to hold back the poor. many parents also really dont care if their kids smoke grass so what good with the drug tests do?

[Old and In the Way]

25. Another block with no voting rights.

It's easy to target students and immigrants as they can't fight back. Between abortion and WOD/WOT, Republicans want to create a police state so intrusive that it will dwarf anything we could come up with.

Providing affordable health care for all - EVIL! Creating a Big Brother state with Republicans Panty Sniffers in charge - GOOD!

[hootinholler]

27. Is this the guy who want to drug test food stamp recipients

I think other people want to test welfare recipients, since denying it will save so much money.

-Hoot

[Rex]

28. NO PROBLEM! As long as Dickless Morris take one too along

with every fucking pundit/politician/govt worker...NOW!

We all know that will NEVER HAPPEN, half of the govt would be fired the very next day!

[TheKentuckian]

30. Notice how drug testing has become a political weapon wielded by both parties

against the disenfranchised, the poor, and the weakest?

[Uncle Joe]

33. Why stop with the students, that won't win it either Smuckers Morris, you need to drug test every

American twice a day, every day, soon as they get out of bed, and during some random chosen hour, you will also need cameras in every room of their homes, cars,trucks and workplaces to monitor them in case they find a way to mask taking the drugs.

Any person caught selling, growing, making or using drugs should be executed, I see no other way to actually win the "War on Drugs."

Thanks for the thread, Very_Boring_Name.

[old mark]

34. K&R. We should drug test every elected politician in the US...probably open up

some jobs...


mark

[reggie the dog]

38. no way! i want reefer smokers as leaders, seriously

[old mark]

52. OK, but what you have is alcoholics and coke and meth heads...

ain't no shrooms in Congress, dude-it's all about high power.

mark

[reggie the dog]

55. we would be so much better off if they did mdma, lsd, shrooms and pot

[progressoid]

35. Sweet Jesus.

After you've tested them all, then what Dicky? Gonna put them all in jail?

[PufPuf23]

39. How about drug testing pundits and pols with Owlsley LSD?

Makes more sense to weed out the nonsense they tend to spot.

Time is right for a War on Non-sense (WON).

[opihimoimoi]

40. Their Ignorance is STUNNING...Who the Fuck takes Morris series?? He is a COMEDIAN FGS

[KamaAina]

42. I hear you can beat a drug test by

sniffing a woman's shoe right before. :P

[damntexdem]

43. And the false positives alone would constitute a major headache.

And they would add the most to the costs: not the original testing but dealing with thousands of positive tests, further screening thousands who did not take drugs.

[ck4829]

45. Hmm, sounds like someone just bought stock in a company that makes these drug tests

[SOS]

47. Don't forget to test the children of the super rich at Andover and Exeter!

These exclusive prep schools are tax exempt.
If they want to keep their tax status, they have to test little Winthorp Higginbottom III and his pals.
That'll go over well.

[spanone]

49. let's drug test these ignorant fucks in our living rooms on the teevee

[demwing]

51. How about we drug test every evangelist

that operates a fund raising scheme but pays no taxes as a non-profit.
Then we can drug test every politician. Period.
Finally, how about we drug test every campaign consult who becomes a media whore?

[JDPriestly]

53. My daughters are grown now. They never needed drug testing.

If Dick Morris's kids needed this, then he should have tested them. Tests are available in the drug store. (I just learned this on my last visit to a drug store. I was shocked to think you could do a drug test in your own home.) It isn't fair to test children who are not taking drugs. It is demeaning and intrusive. Dick Morris is showing his true self. He just likes to demean and put down other people. Typical Republican in this regard.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

56. Why stop at high school students?

Let's test everybody who needs medical attention and might not be able to pay. Let's test everyone collecting welfare, social security, or a government pension, or trying to renew a driver's license.

I know. Let's just fucking test everybody. Once a month, so we can catch more.

Or, we could just legalize drugs.

[chaska]

57. When will these people recognize themselves as fascists?

[Dash87]

58. He's a sad little hobbit.

His obsession with the Clintons is also extremely unhealthy.

[fishwax]

59. in Dick Morris's case, I think the answer is yes

"I'm speechless. Are these guys really this stupid?"

[jmowreader]

60. Maybe we should drug test every Republican in America