DLCer propaganda called out

Republican, Democrat, Green, Libertarian, or Communist, this blog will call you out if you're caught blatantly lying. In fact, we're softer on Republicans, because nobody gives a shit what they think anyway.

Subordinates of the Democratic Leadership Council - the Tea Party wing of the Democratic Party - are fair game to be called out. That includes Rick Davis, Democratic nominee for mayor of Evansville, Indiana. Davis, the current Vanderburgh County Treasurer, said he wants to make over-the-counter allergy drugs available by prescription only. He says a similar right-wing law in Oregon has reduced meth labs by 95%.

That's not true. I suspect he knows this.

In fact, meth-related deaths in Oregon increased 22% after the law was passed. That is a fact.

Even if that wasn't the case, all the law does is punish honest people. If the drug warriors are too incompetent to reduce the scourge of meth in our communities without punishing the innocent by making them wait days and spend tens of extra dollars for treatment, that's tough. In a free society, we do not put innocent lives at risk just because the government has become too fucking stupid to solve a problem that was virtually nonexistent 20 years ago.

Rick Davis and the rest of the DLC need to just admit they're really Republicans. Quit playing games and get it over with. I for one would not vote for Davis any more than I would have voted for California's Janice Hahn following her school uniform endorsement.

And the Democratic Party needs to grow a spine and establish a stiff litmus test: If you support right-wing extremist ideas like Davis and Hahn do, you can't run as a Democrat. Simple as that. Unfortunately, the lie about tougher laws against Sudafed reducing meth labs has become a pervasive propaganda item among the DLC as well as the Republicans. And that's exactly what it is: propaganda.

Are we going to have to literally fight a war for civil liberties?