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(Reading Eagle) Dumbass Former PA State Senator compares driver's licenses to slavery, immediately jumps to third in GOP primary   (readingeagle.com) divider line 39
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Angry Drunk Bureaucrat
2012-02-09 08:55:30 AM
To be fair, Pennsylvanians did elect Rick Santorum to the US Senate.

Twice.

/There's a large segment of the Commonwealth that is, in fact, dumb as bricks.
 
Petit_Merdeux [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 09:27:48 AM
Pennsyltucky.

A good friend of mine is a self-described "Pennsylvania Redneck."

He's not that dumb, though.
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 09:56:04 AM
This guy was a stone cold liar for his entire time in the Legislature. If we could harness the power of this moron's cognitive dissonance electricity would be two cents per kilowatt eon.
 
SilentStrider [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 10:31:01 AM
Mr. Coffee Nerves: This guy was a stone cold liar for his entire time in the Legislature. If we could harness the power of this moron's cognitive dissonance electricity would be two cents per kilowatt eon.

NpI'm not familiar with this moran. Good thing I guess.
 
Lost Thought 00
2012-02-09 10:36:33 AM
Well, they are, because just like slavery, drivers licenses are critical to America's economic success.
 
MaudlinMutantMollusk [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 10:39:48 AM
You can't spell hyperbole without (R)
 
Homer Nixon
2012-02-09 10:41:42 AM
Sam Rohrer was a state rep, not a state senator. So considerably less important. He ran for governor as the Tea Party darling but got beat in the primaries. If it's easier, just think of him as Rick Santorum minus the success.
 
Serious Black
2012-02-09 10:46:10 AM
I think letting newborn babies drive cars is a great idea! After all, they're people, and every person has the exact same rights as every other person.
 
masercot
2012-02-09 10:46:23 AM
All I remember is getting my driver's license and then some highway patrolman whipping me for learning how to read...

It all makes sense, now...
 
Anti_illuminati
2012-02-09 10:49:40 AM
Homer Nixon: Sam Rohrer was a state rep, not a state senator. So considerably less important. He ran for governor as the Tea Party darling but got beat in the primaries. If it's easier, just think of him as Rick Santorum minus the success.

"Rick Santorum" and "success" should not be in the same sentence without the additional phrases "industrial strength paste remover" and/or "that one time at Lindsay Lohan's house".
 
Philip Francis Queeg
2012-02-09 10:49:56 AM
Well that would explain why they kept insisting that the name on my license had to be "Toby".
 
bmongar
2012-02-09 10:52:33 AM
Serious Black: I think letting newborn babies drive cars is a great idea! After all, they're people, and every person has the exact same rights as every other person.

Expand that, Unborns should have the rites of everyone else too. Fetuses should be allowed to drive.
 
T.M.S.
2012-02-09 10:53:20 AM
SOLLY: Ain't nothing worse than slavery! I know. I was there. Dark was the night and cold was the ground. Look at that . . .

(He hands Citizen a chain link.)

That's my good luck piece. That piece of chain used to be around my ankle. They tried to chain me down but I beat them on that one. I say I'm gonna keep this to remember by. I been lucky ever since. I beat them on a lot of things. I beat them when I got away. I had some people who help me. They helped show me the way and looked out for me. I got all the way to Canada. There was eight of us. I was in Canada in 1857. I stood right there in Freedom-land. That's what they called it. Freedom-land. I asked myself ''What I'm gonna do?'' I looked around. I didn't see nothing for me. I tried to feel different but I couldn't. I started crying. I hadn't cried since my daddy knocked me down for crying when I was 10 years old. I breathed in real deep to taste the air. It didn't taste no different. The man what brought us over the border tried to talk with me. I just sat right down on the ground and started crying. I told him say, ''I don't feel right.'' Told him say, ''I'm going back with you.'' It didn't feel right being in freedom and my mama and all the other people still in bondage. I stopped crying soon as I said that. I joined the Underground Railroad. Look at that . . .


(Solly shows Citizen his stick.)

That's 62 notches. That's 62 people I carried to Freedom. I was looking to make it 63 when Abraham Lincoln come along and changed all that. Him and General Grant. I never did join the Union Army but I showed them where to go. I know all the routes.

(Eli goes upstairs to get a bottle of whiskey.)
 
brad111
2012-02-09 10:55:01 AM
You only need a license to vote, not to drive.
 
SuperTramp [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 10:55:24 AM
more libertarian horseshiat

/wishes every libertarian would move to a goddamned desert island to enjoy his "freedom"
 
DROxINxTHExWIND [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 10:58:40 AM
Rohrer, who is running for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. of Scranton in the fall, said that he still questions the legality of individual driver licensing and car registration, but didn't intend to minimize slavery.

"Under no circumstances did staff or I mean to compare this constituent's plight to that of a slave. I simply wanted to establish a validity of his complaint and point out that government often does not have the individual's best interests at hand, but rather its own," Rohrer said in a statement to AP.

Meh, people compare all kinds of dumb stuff to slavery. Its just hyperbole. I don't think he intended to minimize the plight of slaves. But with that said...


brad111: You only need a license to vote, not to drive.

THIS.
 
INeedAName
2012-02-09 11:04:09 AM
Pennsylvania Republicans are some of the most god-awful people you will ever meet.
 
WI241TH [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 11:07:15 AM
So this popped up in my news feed today:
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dababler
2012-02-09 11:14:19 AM
WI241TH: So this popped up in my news feed today:
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Yes well, my license doesn't prove I'm in the country legally, dumbass.
 
monoski
2012-02-09 11:28:12 AM
PA has a really high number of DUI cases each year so maybe he is appealing to the suspended drivers vote?
 
Dr Dreidel
2012-02-09 11:28:40 AM
Unless I'm reading wrong, this guy is also claiming that you should be able to walk onto a plane from the sidewalk - no bag checks, no ID checks, no hand in your pants, no taking off your shoes, liquids are A-OK, no No-Fly List, no TSA...
 
WI241TH [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 11:31:19 AM
dababler: WI241TH: So this popped up in my news feed today:
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Yes well, my license doesn't prove I'm in the country legally, dumbass.

I know. I should have said I didn't have the energy to type out all the things wrong with the picture. Like I said, it popped up in my News Feed, a guy I know posts all this GOP fellating garbage.
 
Dimensio [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 11:31:55 AM
WI241TH: So this popped up in my news feed today:
[a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net image 640x464]

I must express agreement with the sentiment of that image. Should an illegally present immigrant in the United States be stopped -- while operating a motor vehicle -- by a police officer, attempt to use a department store credit card, visit a doctor for an appointment, fill out an application for a credit card or a loan agreement, apply for or attempt to renew a driver's license, fill out a college application, donate blood, obtain certain prescription drugs, make some debit purchase -- especially when out of state, or collect a boarding pass for airline or train travel then that illegally present immigrant should be required to present identification if an individual who is legally present in the United States would be required to present identification under otherwise identical circumstances.
 
thatboyoverthere
2012-02-09 11:36:35 AM
WI241TH: So this popped up in my news feed today:
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Which is wrong as I never showed by id when giving blood, going to my doctor, or getting my student loans. Hell you aren't legally required to show your id when using a credit cards and them asking you to do so is actually a breach of contract that they have with the credit card companies
 
Serious Black
2012-02-09 11:36:37 AM
Dr Dreidel: Unless I'm reading wrong, this guy is also claiming that you should be able to walk onto a plane from the sidewalk - no bag checks, no ID checks, no hand in your pants, no taking off your shoes, liquids are A-OK, no No-Fly List, no TSA...

Absolutely! If you want to put a ton of plastic explosives in your pants and then board a plane, the government has no right to prevent you from doing so!
 
apoptotic
2012-02-09 11:45:44 AM
bmongar: Serious Black: I think letting newborn babies drive cars is a great idea! After all, they're people, and every person has the exact same rights as every other person.

Expand that, Unborns should have the rites of everyone else too. Fetuses should be allowed to drive.

And corporations are people, so obviously corporations should be allowed to drive.
 
Serious Black
2012-02-09 11:51:26 AM
apoptotic: bmongar: Serious Black: I think letting newborn babies drive cars is a great idea! After all, they're people, and every person has the exact same rights as every other person.

Expand that, Unborns should have the rites of everyone else too. Fetuses should be allowed to drive.

And corporations are people, so obviously corporations should be allowed to drive.

And cast votes in public elections too.
 
The Name
2012-02-09 11:55:05 AM
DROxINxTHExWIND: Meh, people compare all kinds of dumb stuff to slavery. Its just hyperbole. I don't think he intended to minimize the plight of slaves.

This excuse would be a little more believable if he weren't a member of the party that executed the Southern Strategy.

Sorry, but I'm sick and tired of giving Republican politicians and voters the benefit of the doubt out of some misguided sense of civility. If you self-identify as a Republican, you are either woefully ignorant or morally bankrupt, or both.
 
Dr. Dave Disco
2012-02-09 11:59:26 AM
Serious Black: Dr Dreidel: Unless I'm reading wrong, this guy is also claiming that you should be able to walk onto a plane from the sidewalk - no bag checks, no ID checks, no hand in your pants, no taking off your shoes, liquids are A-OK, no No-Fly List, no TSA...

Absolutely! If you want to put a ton of plastic explosives in your pants and then board a plane, the government has no right to prevent you from doing so!

Serious Black: Dr Dreidel: Unless I'm reading wrong, this guy is also claiming that you should be able to walk onto a plane from the sidewalk - no bag checks, no ID checks, no hand in your pants, no taking off your shoes, liquids are A-OK, no No-Fly List, no TSA...

Absolutely! If you want to put a ton of plastic explosives in your pants and then board a plane, the government has no right to prevent you from doing so!

The market will take care of such problems.
 
thurstonxhowell
2012-02-09 12:17:37 PM
Rohrer's letter acknowledged the "enormous economic impact" to the Department of Transportation if licensing and registration requirements were to be eliminated,

I kind of doubt that driver's licenses are a tremendous cash cow for the DoT.
 
Car_Ramrod
2012-02-09 12:33:24 PM
"Mr. Reil's use of an automobile is simply an extension of his personal liberty to move about as he wishes," Rohrer wrote. "An individual who wishes to utilize an automobile or other means of conveyance in order to exercise his right to travel cannot lawfully be required to obtain a license to drive or to register his automobile in order to operate it freely on our roads."

Does he think drunk driving should be legal?
 
Mr. Coffee Nerves [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 12:38:43 PM
Holy fark I remember this story.

The moron (Reil) the other moron (Rohrer) is referring to got busted outside the PA Capitol for driving with a car with a handmade cardboard license plate reading "SOVEREIGN CHRISTIAN CITIZEN 1."

His defense -- after freaking out that the courtroom flag had yellow fringe which made it a naval flag and, as such, the court had no authority over him -- was "the Constitution allows me free travel."

The judge's smackdown was, of course "Walk wherever the blue fark you like, dude. Drive your car in endless circles around your back yard all you like, dude. Want to drive a car on a state road? You need a license. Guilty as a motherfarker." (I may have paraphrased)
 
historycat [TotalFark]
2012-02-09 12:53:59 PM
Some staffer just finished up their semester of philosophy and wanted to apply Michael Foucault's writings on biopower.

So before you all keep jumping on him about how stupid this is, it is an actual thing out there.

/and very liberal.
//one of my sophomore debaters just wrote this same thing for an English essay about drivers licenses.
 
watson.t.hamster
2012-02-09 12:59:07 PM
Drivers licenses are very difficult to get. It is literally impossible to acquire one, especially for women and minorities. So it is an unfair restriction on movement to demand one prior to driving.

Can't be done.

Don't believe me? Just say that they should be used to verify identify prior to voting. Then hundreds of people will come out of the woodwork to verify this.
 
Tergiversada
2012-02-09 01:15:25 PM
dababler: WI241TH: So this popped up in my news feed today:
[a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net image 640x464]

Yes well, my license doesn't prove I'm in the country legally, dumbass.

I'm an interpreter and work with a large number of illegals on a regular basis; many of whom are my friends. The Mexican driver's licenses/identification cards they carry are fake. There are no cars in the villages where they come from, and no one has a license to drive---most of them didn't learn to drive until they moved up here. One lady learned to drive using the electric golf cart at the landscaping company she works for. Pretty scary when you think about it, especially when you consider that they can't read the road signs!
 
Serious Black
2012-02-09 01:23:33 PM
watson.t.hamster: Drivers licenses are very difficult to get. It is literally impossible to acquire one, especially for women and minorities. So it is an unfair restriction on movement to demand one prior to driving.

Can't be done.

Don't believe me? Just say that they should be used to verify identify prior to voting. Then hundreds of people will come out of the woodwork to verify this.

Voting is a fundamental right. Driving is not.
 
jigger
2012-02-09 01:28:32 PM
WI241TH: So this popped up in my news feed today:
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I like the extraneous comma trying to slip across the border.
 
Guidette Frankentits
2012-02-09 01:51:13 PM
Serious Black: I think letting newborn babies drive cars is a great idea! After all, they're people, and every person has the exact same rights as every other person.

DRIVERS ED BEGINS AT CONCEPTION!

 
watson.t.hamster
2012-02-10 02:35:00 PM
Serious Black: Voting is a fundamental right. Driving is not.

Doesn't change the fact that depending on how you phrase the question a drivers license can either be A) entirely unattainable or B) entirely attainable.

/bearing arms is a fundamental right. I assume you likewise oppose any ID for gun purchases.
 
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