Shots Across the Bow

Proving that there is no detail of your life too small to escape the federal government, Chuck Shumer wants to create a federal ban on texting while driving by penalizing states 25% of their federal highway budgets if they do not pass a texting ban. Ironically, the money that Chucky plans on witholding from the states came from the states in the first place.

Obviously, texting while driving is stupid. Equally obviously, it is a state issue, not a federal one, which is why Sen. Shumer, bless his black corrupt heart, is pulling a little fiscal blackmail to make it happen.

By the way, remember the whole bit in Obama's cap and trade program, the part where he promised to give all of the excess money collected back to the people to try and offset the "skyrocketing" energy bills? How much do you want to bet that in order to qualify for that rebate, you'll have to meet certain criteria laid out by Democrat like Chuck Shumer?

When a thug comes to you and demands that you give him money or bad things will happen to you, it's called extortion. When the federal government does it, it's called Hope and Change.

"Obviously, texting while driving is stupid."

Just because most people are too stupid to do that safely doesn't make that the case for all of us. Some of us don't actually have to look at the phone, or use both hands, to send a text message.

Never considered of this gracious point thank you a lot. I practiced this to my feed and appears to be working. Wonder how numerous airted connections I experience around from concerned in familiar bloggers blogs that give notice luv simply are pointing to my provender.

I don't make a distinction," Delegate Nancy Guthrie, a Democrat, said Tuesday following an interim committee meeting that included discussion about the bill. "I don't think there's any difference between the distraction that you have when you're using your cell phone or when you're trying to text someone - they're both dangerous."

The proposed draft bill would make it a misdemeanor, secondary action offense to write, send or read text messages while driving. It also would include fines of $25 for a first offense, $50 for a second offense and $75 for third and subsequent offenses.

A bill banning both cell phone use and texting while driving passed out of the House and a Senate committee during the regular session this past year, but it stopped short of jewelry box passing the full Legislature after being amended on the floor during the session's last night with something that was not germane to the bill, Guthrie said.

Guthrie questioned why the cell phone ban was not included in the recent draft.

"I don't believe the two issues are separate," Guthrie told members of the Select Committee on Infrastructure. "I would like to see us stand up for both of those issues."

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