Yup, Wisconsin Republicans are stoners

Just when you think the GOP can’t get any more ridiculous …. it does

State Rep Jon Plumer’s (R-Lodi) medical marijuana bill is too much government, too much regulation.

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Wow, there’s so much to write about the absurdity of the Wisconsin Republican Party that I just don’t know where to start. A triple espresso helps first thing, but too much caffeine makes you start to see liberals and RINOs living in the fridge, smiling out at you like a creepy head of cabbage. So let’s restrain the caffeine this morning and just pluck a number out of a hat to see what GOP lunacy we should discuss. OK, there seems to be a plume coming up out of the hat, and there it is—the medical marijuana bill coming out of the bongs of Assembly Republicans.

I’ll save ranked-choice voting for another day.

I have to say, the new medical marijuana bill is quintessential Republican establishment politics. It takes something that should be passed—medical marijuana—and turns it into a government nightmare. With this proposal, the GOP even made the Democrats looks like the party of smaller government. It’s quintessential establishment Republicanism—they pass something the public wants and needs but they don’t like and then impose authoritarian big-government restrictions on it. So it’s not enough to define parameters for food-stamp eligibility, for instance, they try to act like nutritionists and tell the poor what to eat. With medical marijuana, the Republicans don’t like it at all, so instead of just setting the lightest regulatory parameters, they dress up like doctors and dare to tell the real doctors and their patients what they can recommend and obtain.