Dole Links License To Drug Test

Charlotte Observer ^ | October 30, 2002 | Mark Johnson

[yendu bwam]

The drivers license argument is a red herring. Cant wait for all the statist vomit to come from the ignorant, intellectually vacant, emotional soccer mom, flag waving, brown shirt, useful idiot man-girls.

There's no reason anyone applying for a license should think they have the right get one while doing drugs. There are many, many kids who would have to get off drugs to get their license. Even if temporary, it would show them that they can go drug free. It would also make our roads safer for everyone. I'm all for this.

[azhenfud]

And who would foot the bill for the tests? Government (you and I) or the kid's parents?

< sarcasm > Why don't we make possession of a driver's license as stringent as that of a private pilot certificate and as costly to acquire. With two-year medicals and 90 day currency standards and inspections of highway vehicles as stringent as that of aircraft, we really could cut the number of legal drivers by about two-thirds. We'd then save millions of barrels of oil, pollute the air considerably less, and have fewer highway fatalities.< /sarcasm >

But then, big brother has always demonstrated he doesn't know where to stop his hand.

[Dane]

No wonder Darth Sideous refused to vote for her, and got banned for it.

Uh AAA you left one fact out. Darth Sidious was openly campaigning for Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles.

It is so funny watching you all go nuts over a minor thing(but good politics on Doles part)and by the way if you all hate Liddy Dole so much your hate must also be directed at Ronald Reagan who gave her her start in politics.

[ninenot]

She's STILL a suspect. The 'presumption of innocence' (even though this is a license matter, not a criminal matter) didn't seem to enter her alleged thought-train.

If a driver is DUI, it's REVOCATION for at least 6 months. Simple, after-the-fact, determination of guilt.

NEXT: substance tests for gun-owners!!

[APBaer]

"all teenagers to pass a drug test before getting a driver's license"

What if a kid's test reveals a high dosage of Viagra?
Will he get his license, conditioned on his driving only a Woodie?

[putupon]

The "Drug War" is favored overwhelmingly by the populace.

Let that overwhelming portion of the populace that likes to throw it's money down the toilet pay for it then. Let the people that realize what a sorry rate of return they are getting for their investment opt out.

[yendu bwam]

But then, big brother has always demonstrated he doesn't know where to stop his hand.

A true big brother would not let his little brother or sister drive while on drugs.

[AppyPappy]

Help me out. Why is this a federal matter?

[Dane]

"With Republicans like these who needs DemocRATS?"

AMEN!

With short sighted knee jerk responses like these can anyone say a Daschle Senate.

[yendu bwam]

Let that overwhelming portion of the populace that likes to throw it's money down the toilet pay for it then. Let the people that realize what a sorry rate of return they are getting for their investment opt out.

You don't have that option in this democracy, where the majority of the populace (yes, thru representatives) rules. You can always go to another country.

[azhenfud]

"The primary system is so full of poor results that we are stuck looking at with candidates that defy have no common sense."

Just a minor adjustment there....

[yendu bwam]

The 'presumption of innocence' (even though this is a license matter, not a criminal matter) didn't seem to enter her alleged thought-train.

Get real. A person on drugs is unfit to be driving and endangers everyone - just like a person whose eyesight is poor or a person with uncontrollable epilepsy.

[NittanyLion]

Here she is suggesting a State Law. Why isn't she running for the State Legislature?

Actually, she's suggesting a federal law. The federal government would then likely extort the states into supporting it by withholding federal highway funds.

If Dole wanted to proposed this law at the state level, I'd say she should go for it. But I'd prefer not to pay for a North Carolina senator's lamebrained ideas.

[philman_36]

Excellent idea, Liddy, but PLEASE tell me you're not favoring this at the Federal level.
Didn't you read the article?
Dole, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate and a former transportation secretary, has promised to push for a federal law pressuring states to enforce such a measure.
You're dreaming.

[Wolfie]

He'll just have to prove he can drive a stick.

[Wolfie]

Beats me. Promoting the General Welfare, I guess.

[Pern]

The fact that you and the other Libertines sit around muttering and moaning about it doesn't change that fact.

Wow, your first posting to this thread isn't discussion, but slander and name calling. Pitiful.

Here's a link to actual polls on the subject that philman_36 turned me on to. Funny, it doesn't support your claim of American's love of the Drug War.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/timep.politics.pot.tm/index.html

[philman_36]

The "Drug War" is favored overwhelmingly by the populace.
With the threads you've been on in the last few days and you still state that...

[KC Burke]

Obviously, it is not a Federal matter. It is Government Planning, top-down and cnetralized, that is an unfunded Federal Mandate if passed as a Federal Law.

Drug issues aside, it is the same get-along-with-the-socialists crap that he husband sheperaded through congress on behalf of demogogues like Nixon.

If we are going to try to use these old failed names as fronts, we are going to have to give them the play-book and not let them talk without a hand-puppet operator.

Geeze, talk about lowered expectations.