GOP Jobs Plan: More Snakes?

[ProSense]

GOP Jobs Plan: More Snakes?

Benjy Sarlin

Democrats and Republicans all agree that the nation needs to move on a jobs agenda. And Republicans have a new plan: unleash the reins of snake commerce.

GOP members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today called attention to a proposed regulation that would restrict the transportation and importation of nine types of snakes, including the Burmese Python.

In a new report entitled "Broken Government: How the Administrative State has Broken President Obama's Promise of Regulatory Reform," GOP members cited the proposed snake ban as one of seven examples of red tape choking off job growth in an already ailing economy.

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Politico reports that Florida officials, led by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), are pushing for the new rules because the Everglades are under attack by 100,000 gigantic Burmese pythons who have been accidentally introduced by negligent pet owners. The outside invaders have been on a rampage, devouring native birds and other creatures. One python grew so big that it managed to devour a six-foot alligator before exploding. No really. This actually happened. There's a photo.

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[Kennah]

1. Invasive species, snakes, and the GOP. Yep, it's all together in one story for a reason.

[GentryDixon]

2. The south loves their snakes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89VR_lZehw4

This was played at the intro to a Ronnie Dunn concert I went to last week.

My husband always stopped at the snake pits in Texas back in the 1970's on our travels through the state.

[Blue_Tires]

3. how does a live gator get eaten by a python?

[quaker bill]

4. Like most other things, slowly

Pythons are apparently winning the battle often enough. There are lots of gators and crocs in the 'glades. However, the python population is exploding, so it would seem the gators are not catching and eating too many pythons. There is evidence that pythons are catching and eating the occasional gator.

Pythons strangle their prey then consume it whole, inch by inch.

[Enrique]

5. snakes are Florida's future

we even elected one as governor.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. We are finally through the looking glass here

This is apparently NOT an Onion article.

:wtf: :crazy:

[benld74]

7. SNAKES in Everglades made possible by Hurricane Andrew and Nothing MORe

[NickB79]

9. Explain. nt

[ProSense]

8. GOP says ban on invasive snakes is ‘job killer’

Grist: GOP says ban on invasive snakes is ‘job killer’

[Bombtrack]

10. Tossing dwarves into snakes is the real fix