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RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:45 PM Sep 2012

DU Poll: "Should congressmen be periodically drug tested?"

DU Poll: "Should congressmen be periodically drug tested?"


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15 (94%)
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DU Poll: "Should congressmen be periodically drug tested?" (Original Post) RKP5637 Sep 2012 OP
All Republicans should be drug tested five times a week. Panasonic Sep 2012 #1
And the winner is! Panasonic!!! "Bingo!" RKP5637 Sep 2012 #2
Alcohol tests for Repubs right after lunch...Late lunches especially...n/t monmouth Sep 2012 #10
+1 Scuba Sep 2012 #11
I want to say that I think that no one should be tested for drug use as a condition of employment notadmblnd Sep 2012 #3
Agreed 99Forever Sep 2012 #6
I wonder how many CEOs and other execs are drug tested in those companies that RKP5637 Sep 2012 #15
Exactly. AzDar Sep 2012 #39
Do you mean "drug behind a team of horses to see if they can take it"? Bucky Sep 2012 #4
Now that's a good interpretation! RKP5637 Sep 2012 #22
I dont think its intolerable if its a republican being dragged DJ13 Sep 2012 #36
Let the Medicare Fraud Space Alien of Florida HockeyMom Sep 2012 #5
If anybody is to be tested, the Congress and state legislatures should be tested too. bemildred Sep 2012 #7
Agree, and "especially" the drug cops! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #16
I voted MysticLynx Sep 2012 #8
Exactly, well said!!! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #14
Only those who have voted to have other Americans drug-tested. nt valerief Sep 2012 #9
Oh, heck yes! DollarBillHines Sep 2012 #12
Love it! nt valerief Sep 2012 #40
This. Control-Z Sep 2012 #38
No, they shouldn't be drug tested any more than anyone else should be. Blue_In_AK Sep 2012 #13
I'm not a fan of it either. What really gets to me are those in upper RKP5637 Sep 2012 #18
Exactly. Blue_In_AK Sep 2012 #30
As should judges, attorneys, law enforcers and doctors. sad sally Sep 2012 #17
Yep, if we drug test, then "everyone" IMO should be subjected, not just the RKP5637 Sep 2012 #20
They passed it for everyone else, why not? quaker bill Sep 2012 #19
Congressmen hold the lives of billions of people in their hands, when you LuvNewcastle Sep 2012 #21
Very well said! They, hold their finger on the trigger, so to say, that could RKP5637 Sep 2012 #24
I like that idea. LuvNewcastle Sep 2012 #33
If any other government employee is, then all of Congress should be. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #23
Other. GoCubsGo Sep 2012 #25
Interesting how they generally skirt around their own laws, isn't it ... n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #26
Drug testing, meh...Lie detection...daily Sekhmets Daughter Sep 2012 #27
Definitely, absolutely, the psychiatric evaluations! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #29
Anyone want to guess what Boehner's regular glowing Sep 2012 #28
I would dare say breakfast is Screwdrivers or Bloody Marys! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #31
If its required of people on welfare to get their $200 Fresh_Start Sep 2012 #32
Definitely, agree! ... but they always go after the little people, and then pat RKP5637 Sep 2012 #34
I think they should be tested for ESE Salviati Sep 2012 #35
Yep, many R's, and many MSM personalities; i.e., Rush, et. al. n/t RKP5637 Sep 2012 #37
 

Panasonic

(2,921 posts)
1. All Republicans should be drug tested five times a week.
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:46 PM
Sep 2012

Usually at midnight.

Surprise inspections.

Dems can test once a month, but if they vote for right-wing legislation, set that person aside for immediate drug testing.

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)
3. I want to say that I think that no one should be tested for drug use as a condition of employment
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:50 PM
Sep 2012

but as long as the little people are required to go through the process, congress critters should too.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
6. Agreed
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:59 PM
Sep 2012

Drug testing in the workplace should ONLY occur with reasonable cause and if it comes back clean, those ordering the test should be fired.

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
15. I wonder how many CEOs and other execs are drug tested in those companies that
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:02 PM
Sep 2012

require drug testing for all of the little people. Few, I bet.

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
4. Do you mean "drug behind a team of horses to see if they can take it"?
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:52 PM
Sep 2012

Good heavens no! The practice of dragging criminals behind draught horses is barbaric and untolerable!

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
5. Let the Medicare Fraud Space Alien of Florida
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 04:58 PM
Sep 2012

who demanded all people getting government "assistance" from welfare, unemployment, to all public employees get drug tested with his "wife's" drug testing company, be the FIRST in line.

bemildred

(90,061 posts)
7. If anybody is to be tested, the Congress and state legislatures should be tested too.
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 05:00 PM
Sep 2012

And the drug cops too, they should be tested every day.

MysticLynx

(51 posts)
8. I voted
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 05:03 PM
Sep 2012

yes, only because maybe then we will get rid of these ridiculous stop and frisk laws that disproportionately affect minority and low income youth- effectively making it even harder for them to get jobs. Most companies now have 'drug test ' policies, and many states have passed drug-test laws in order to apply for assistance, some have proposed them even for those applying for unemployment benefits (which most workers have ALREADY paid for in the form of a tax) - Why should our congressional candidates be held to any different standard than the majority of the US workforce faces every time they apply for a job?

DollarBillHines

(1,922 posts)
12. Oh, heck yes!
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 05:37 PM
Sep 2012

Just as every one of them who votes against reproductive choice should go to the top of The Crack Baby Adoption List.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
13. No, they shouldn't be drug tested any more than anyone else should be.
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 05:57 PM
Sep 2012

I'm not a fan of random drug testing.

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
18. I'm not a fan of it either. What really gets to me are those in upper
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:09 PM
Sep 2012

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echelons that make rules for the little people that they skirt around. I wonder how many CEOs and execs. ever get drug tested. Drug testing IMO should only occur "if" these is probable cause and sufficient evidence to warrant drug testing. IMO running everyone through the mill (or at random) is asinine ... but as usual, follow the money trail and someone's making big bucks off of it, probably.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
30. Exactly.
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:43 PM
Sep 2012

I used to work in a prison back in the early '80s when random drug testing was first being tried out. I remember one particular inmate telling me then that they were just the guinea pigs, that if it became successful with prisoners, parolees and probationers, it would soon migrate out to the rest of society. Definitely prescient. I consider it really a violation of the Fourth Amendment, especially when it's used randomly without cause.

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
20. Yep, if we drug test, then "everyone" IMO should be subjected, not just the
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:11 PM
Sep 2012

little people. If what you said did happen, I bet drug testing would be gone in a flash.

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
21. Congressmen hold the lives of billions of people in their hands, when you
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:14 PM
Sep 2012

factor in all the world's people who are affected by American laws and policies. If the guy working at the sock factory has to be drug tested as a condition of employment, how much more important is it that we make sure that such powerful people are in their right minds? I'll bet we see the end of the War on Drugs before we see such a law passed, however, which is just fine by me.

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
24. Very well said! They, hold their finger on the trigger, so to say, that could
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:27 PM
Sep 2012

effect billions of people. It only makes sense to me, then, that they be in full control of their faculties. Of course, I also believe candidates for high office and at many levels should somehow ( and that somehow I admit is very difficult) have a personality profile done by a team of independent physicians. I've seen a number of candidates, as well as those in office, wherein I seriously question if they are really playing with a full deck.

In the old days, there was perhaps time to compensate for an impaired individual in high office ... today, there is little time, events happen far too quickly. If one just thinks vaguely about risk analysis, there is a very high potential for very high risk ... from the potential impairment of sound faculties at high levels and with great power.

LuvNewcastle

(16,820 posts)
33. I like that idea.
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:52 PM
Sep 2012

Plenty of Congressmen could use evaluation; James Traficant comes to mind. We've had at least one President with Alzheimer's and I think Dubya's mind was addled from his drugging and boozing days. Supreme Court Justices often stay on the Court until they're elderly; odds are that plenty of them have been at least moderately impaired. Drug tests and mental evaluations should be commonplace for officials with that much power.

Sekhmets Daughter

(7,515 posts)
27. Drug testing, meh...Lie detection...daily
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:40 PM
Sep 2012

They should have to take an IQ test and undergo psychiatric evaluations.

 

glowing

(12,233 posts)
28. Anyone want to guess what Boehner's regular
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:41 PM
Sep 2012

BAC is on any given morning? And he's the head of the Congressional House that makes laws and appropriates money.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
32. If its required of people on welfare to get their $200
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:49 PM
Sep 2012

it should be required even more frequently who can spend $200,000,000 per day...just saying
if you are afraid of the waste of the small welfare dollars we should be much more concerned about the waste of trillions

RKP5637

(67,030 posts)
34. Definitely, agree! ... but they always go after the little people, and then pat
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:53 PM
Sep 2012

themselves on the back, and skirt the laws they impose on millions. As you said, "... we should be much more concerned about the waste of trillions."

Salviati

(6,002 posts)
35. I think they should be tested for ESE
Sat Sep 29, 2012, 06:53 PM
Sep 2012

Elephentine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a progressive condition that affects the brain and nervous system of many conservatives which can lead to:
Dementia (having conversations with inanimate objects, e.g. chairs)
Memory loss (the inability to remember the positions that one held as little as a week prior),
Personality defects (An increased propensity for dickishness, toolishness, and otherwise rampent assholery)
Paranoia (partciulary seeing conspericies involving communists, socialists, elitists, islamists, secularlists, and oftentimes especally incongruous combinations of these groups).

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