The 8 Craziest Republican Legislative Proposals Of 2012
December 27, 2012 |

The following is ThinkProgress' list of the 8 Craziest Republican
Legislative Proposals Of 2012:

1. Outlawing the dollar.

Washington state lawmakers introduced a bill that would have outlawed
the paper dollar [3], because “only gold and silver may be recognized as
government legal tender.” This is just part and parcel of the extreme
right’s continuing fascination with goldbuggery, a fascination to which
the Republican party’s presidential candidates gladly pandered

2. Striking the words ‘sea level rise.’

In Virginia, the Republican-led legislature commissioned a study to
determine the impacts of manmade warming on the state’s shores, only to
ban terms like “climate change” and “sea level rise,” deeming them
“liberal code words.” And North Carolina Republicans voted to ignore
studies that predict rapid sea level rise due to global warming.

3. Banning ‘Sharia Law.’

Republicans in states like Florida and Kansas passed Sharia-law bans in
their state legislatures. In Kansas, a spokeswoman for Gov. Sam
Brownback (R-KS) went so far as to say that the ban meant that the state
“will not consider the laws of foreign jurisdictions.” The bans
signified yet another year of the Republican establishment endorsing
fringe Islamophobes.

4. Defining life as beginning before conception.

In Arizona, Republicans passed a new round of restrictive, anti-choice
laws in the last year, chief among them HB 954. The bill, which one
Republican defended by comparing women to cows and pigs, outlaws
abortions after 20 weeks and actually starts the clock after a woman’s
last menstrual period.

5. Allowing citizens to shoot at cops.

The NRA pushed Republicans in Indiana to pass a law that allows any
citizen to open fire on a “public servant” for “unlawful intrusion .”
Police fear this means a citizen could shoot at a cop, then claim the
cop was trying to enter his or her property.

6. Zeroing out foreign aid.

American foreign aid saves literally millions of lives at miniscule
cost to taxpayers . And there are millions still dying that more
American support could help. Yet Republican Presidential candidates,
including Mitt Romney, proposed cutting the entire foreign aid budget
and starting from scratch . Though Romney later changed course , House
Republicans proposed draconian cuts to lifesaving aid .

7. Creationism in schools.

The movement to question the science of evolution was alive and well
this year, as Indiana state senator Dennis Kruse (R) proposed not one,
but two bills to inject creationist teachings [17] into the public
school curriculum.

8. Promoting discrimination on military bases.

Though H.R.3828, Rep. Tim Huelskamp’s (R-KS) Military Religious Freedom
Protection Act , appears to be about protecting military chaplains from
having to violate their faith, it would ban using any military
facilities for same-sex marriages and even “marriage-like” ceremonies.

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5. Allowing citizens to shoot at cops.

The NRA pushed Republicans in Indiana to pass a law that allows any
citizen to open fire on a ?public servant? for ?unlawful intrusion .?
Police fear this means a citizen could shoot at a cop, then claim the
cop was trying to enter his or her property.


You should applaud this one. When the come to take your guns away or to
collect unpaid taxes you can always shoot the federal agents.