Obey Said What or Welcome to Lilliput
We don't have the link yet, but we just got a call from a reader who said Obey just took to the house floor to support medical marijuana.
Reportedly, he told his colleagues on the floor of the House of Representatives to "butt out" of prohibiting doctor prescribed smoking of marijuana.
OK, so you might support medical marijuana even though there are prescription drugs that use THC to alleviate pain and increase appetite (oh, and the Supreme Court has upheld the federal law prohibiting medical marijuana), but here's the kickers on what Obey called his colleagues:
" . . . the daffy ducks in this institution"
as well as "Lilliputians"
As for Lilliputians, we looked them up for a description (see below). Besides the fact that our Congressman is an ongoing embarrassment for some of the things he says in the House of Representatives, we say, it takes one to know one.
The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually. There is more backbiting and conspiracy in Lilliput than anywhere else, and more of the pettiness of small minds who imagine themselves to be grand.
Reportedly, he told his colleagues on the floor of the House of Representatives to "butt out" of prohibiting doctor prescribed smoking of marijuana.
OK, so you might support medical marijuana even though there are prescription drugs that use THC to alleviate pain and increase appetite (oh, and the Supreme Court has upheld the federal law prohibiting medical marijuana), but here's the kickers on what Obey called his colleagues:
" . . . the daffy ducks in this institution"
as well as "Lilliputians"
As for Lilliputians, we looked them up for a description (see below). Besides the fact that our Congressman is an ongoing embarrassment for some of the things he says in the House of Representatives, we say, it takes one to know one.
The Lilliputians symbolize humankind’s wildly excessive pride in its own puny existence. Swift fully intends the irony of representing the tiniest race visited by Gulliver as by far the most vainglorious and smug, both collectively and individually. There is more backbiting and conspiracy in Lilliput than anywhere else, and more of the pettiness of small minds who imagine themselves to be grand.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 4:06 PM
3 Comments:
"butt out" of smoking . . . ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Mabey Obey can borrow Jessie Jackson's old slogan and turn it around: Dope not Hope.
The Dave Obey Agenda 2006:
Save Mother Earth, shut down factories!
$4 Gas Now!
Pot for All!
Raise Taxes!
Surrender in Iraq!
Create a Nat'l Merlot Day!
Nice Agenda, for San Fran or Vermont that is...
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