18 February 2009

Quote of the Day

"That is what we should do here, whether it's constitutional or not... Okay, I should not have said it like that."

-- Delegate Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, while urging support for his proposal to require drug testing of those who apply for public assistance.

2 comments:

Christopher Scott Jones said...

I wish that I hadn't read that while drinking coffee. Now I gotta go buy a new monitor.

Unknown said...

It is an expensive and dumb idea.The main rationale seems to be that we give these families benefits, so we can require them to do this. Why not extend that argument to driver's licenses? Or public employees? Let's see the frosh legislator explain that back home.