Since we now know that Conservatives believe that parents of recipients of school lunch programs are child abusers
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/right-wing-declares-war-poor-kate-obeirne-cIt's time for us to start up a new game: predict America's next great nutjob idea!!!
First, the rules. I'm open to suggestions here.
We gotta award points to those whose predictions come true! :D The amount of points should be proportional to the rank of the Conservative or Blue Dog. For instance when an insane idea comes from a Republican city council member that's 100 points, but when it comes from a Republican US Senator or Republican US Senator posing as a Democrat, that warrants something like being multiplied by several powers of 2, like maybe 3200 points.) How high up the rank is a US Senator from a city councilman?)
Also: should Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck be excluded or not? I ask this because they're always spouting off the absolute craziest of crap. If not, we need a point scoring system for them, too. Maybe 10 points per political commentator whose nutjob comments meet a DU contestant's prediction.
Then there's the 1 point scored for every prediction that is hilarious or downright scary, and more points for arbitrary assigned value of likelihood. That kinda thing.
As I said, I'm open to ideas here!
Ok now, lemme start by throwing these potential right wing nutjob ideas into contention.
Parents who take their kids to liberal or pro-union/etc. protests are engaging in child abuse.
Any parent on welfare is an unfit parent whose kid should be taken away.
Send the jobless off to war.
Miscarriage = death penalty (hah, psyche, already suggested!)
Bring back the landed gentry.