Drug test supporter busted for DUI

For the past few years, the Republican National Committee has bankrolled a coordinated campaign attempting to build public support for requiring drug tests to receive welfare, disability, or unemployment benefits. The idea is unconstitutional, because you need probable cause before testing somebody. But the Republicans' campaign has encouraged a flurry of bills in state legislatures to require drug tests for public assistance - with no probable cause whatsoever.

Usually, however, the idea's most vocal supporters can't even get their own lives in order.

Georgia's State Rep. Kip Smith cosponsored a bill to require drug testing for welfare. But now he's been arrested for DUI.

In my day, there was a word for this: hypocrisy. If a person can't imbibe responsibly, they have no business accusing everybody else of being on drugs. It's that simple.

Smith was driving a very expensive Jaguar. Oh, so I guess he thinks it's fine to accuse the poor of abusing drugs while rich guys like himself go out and get utterly smashed and endanger countless lives. Not only that, but Smith was uncooperative when the police pulled him over.

The Republican Right tries writing their prejudices against the poor into law, but they consider their own transgressions to be "art."

(Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/state-rep-kip-smith-1302153.html)