An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Random drug-testing of the members of Congress:

WASHINGTON — While most Americans like the idea of drug testing for welfare recipients, they LOVE the idea of drug testing for members of Congress.

According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, 64 percent of Americans favor requiring welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing — a measure pushed by Republican lawmakers in recent years — while 18 percent oppose it. But an even stronger majority said they’re in favor of random drug testing for members of Congress, by a 78 percent to 7 percent margin. Sixty-two percent said they “strongly” favor drug testing for congressional lawmakers, compared to only 51 percent who said the same of welfare recipients.

Heck, I’d settle for sanity checks.

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  • ... Link

    Random checks of their blood for drugs? I’d like regular checks of their financial records (and freezers) for payoffs.

  • Andy Link

    How about any member of Congress found without drugs in their system be forced to ingest some?

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