Friday, March 13, 2009
Kotz / Legislature / Politics Rep. Frank Niceley Leads This Week's Kook Power Rankings
Posted by Pete Kotz on Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:09 AM
1. Rep. Frank Niceley: He needed to find a way to explain the toxic TVA spill in a conservative-appropriate way. So naturally, he just made stuff up, claiming it was caused by an earthquake! And while he may be a little short on evidence, worry not. Despite water readings indicating arsenic levels at 150 times what's safe for human consumption, Niceley concluded that arsenic isn't really bad for you! So just go stick your face in a vat of it, children! It's the ultimate teeth whitener!
2. Sen. Jim Tracy: Nothing says bravery like siding with nursing homes in a fight with abused grandmas. Tracy wants to cap non-monetary damages in nursing home abuse suits to $300,000--and then pump a cut of the award back to the industry. High level sources say he also rooted for the Nazis while watching Schindler's List.
3. Senator Paul Stanley: He got meaner than a Vietnamese brothel owner with his bill to ban cities and counties from enacting living wage laws. It seems the good senator from Germantown is unhappy that Memphis requires contractors to pay the princely sum of $10 an hour. Not surprisingly, that black-hearted body known as the Tennessee Senate went along, passing his bill by an 18-13 vote. Leona Helmsley rolled over in her grave with joy.
4. Senator Diane Black: Introduces resolution to ban abortions, with no exceptions for the health of the mother or for cases of rape and incest. In related news, Lucifer appoints her the health czar of Hell, pending her inevitable arrival.
6. Rep. Gary Odom: Releases House Democratic "action agenda" loaded with platitudes that indicate his party is in favor of orphans, kindly grandmas, and decent spaghetti sauce, but provides no details about what Democrats actually hope to accomplish on, like, their job.
7. Rep. Stacey Campfield: You know it's a bad week when Campfield can only muster a 7th place in the standings. But the legislature's reigning kook was knocked down for a mild-mannered week in which he only wanted to preclude teachers from discussing homosexuality in public schools. After all, if you don't talk about it, it doesn't exist.
Update: The unofficial state Republican website registers a complaint.
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Kotz,
In the interest of balance, you need to mention House Speaker Pro Tem Lois DeBerry, a Democrat who has inexplicably signed on as a co-sponsor to the Kill-old-people-cheap Act.
By doing so, she's made it impossible for the Democrats to oppose this outrageous bill as a party (as many of them would like to do), and has given the Repubs a perfect partisan cover for giving the nursing homes a license to kill old people via neglect.
I'm more interested in just how did Mr. Kotz become an expert in Vietnamese brothel owners' temperments. And yes, while some of what Rep. Niceley may say is bullshit, at least, unlike this blog, it's informative bullshit.
Informative???
He's inventing a story about an earthquake and the harmlessness of arsenic in groundwater in order to shield TVA from its culpability in creating a massive environmental disaster - that's not informative. It's called lying.
Thank God we've got the likes of Senators Black and Stanley to take on the bloodthirsty grandmas and minimum-wage earners in our state. Way to go guys, I feel so much warmer and safer now.
Thanks
Filo
If you listen to the exact quote of Rep. Niceley you will hear him attribute the quote to TVA about the earthquake. The entire speech was centered around how erroneous it was to build the holding pond in the middle of the lake. Please get your facts right before you jump to conclusions.
