The GOP has had it with these mofo regulations on mofo snake commerce

We all knew the Republicans would bring some fresh ideas to the task of jobs creation, and they haven’t disappointed. Their proposals fall into two categories: cutting taxes and slashing regulations. Pursuant to the latter, there’s this:

GOP members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today called attention to a proposed regulation that would restrict the transportation and importation of nine types of snakes, including the Burmese Python.

In a new report entitled “Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama’s Promise of Regulatory Reform,” GOP members cited the proposed snake ban as one of seven examples of red tape choking off job growth in an already ailing economy.

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In the on-going battle over the dismal state of the jobs market, Republicans argue that a “regulatory tsunami” from the Obama administration is choking off jobs growth. Committee members say the free market should handle the giant pythons and that government tampering would “devastate a small but thriving sector of the economy.”

A rather serpentine report that fairly hisses with barely contained venom, the “Broken Government: How the Broken Administrative State Has Broken the Broken President’s Broken Promise of Motherfucking Snake Regulatory Reform”  document urges lawmakers to stand aside and allow private enterprise to bare the fangs of American exceptionalism with an adder in every pot. Or something.

Good Christ, these motherfucking people are motherfucking dumb. 

PS: One reason new regulations have been proposed to restrict snake commerce is that there approximately 100,000 pythons roaming the Everglades, dumped there by irresponsible pet owners. TPM again:

One python grew so big that it managed to devour a six-foot alligator before exploding. No really. This actually happened. There’s a photo.

A less ambitious python killed a Florida couple’s child. Perhaps the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee could put on some hip-waders and see how they do in the ‘Glades. Armed with “private enterprise,” of course.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 09/15/11 at 02:02 PM • Permalink

You know. I like snakes. I think they’re pretty groovy. Of course, I don’t live in a state where pet Burmese pythons are living very large because dumbass owners finally realized a really big snake is not a dick substitute and it can strangle your ass*.

But I also know that mine is an unusual stance re: Snakes. If GOPeratives really think “Waah! Obama won’t let more people bring more snakes, especially ones that get big enough to take out a person, into the country!” is a winning strategy, I’ll take it as proof that SpoofMeister DougJ has inflitrated the Republican Party.

*Um. People living in or planning to travel to Florida should perhaps not follow the link.

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