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Another chapter in the ‘fake’ ‘manufactured’ ‘fictitious’ GOP War on Women: Iowa and child support recipients

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Won’t someone think of the vindictive ex-husbands?

Iowa Republican proposes drug testing for child support recipients

Republicans have made headlines this year by demanding that people collecting unemployment benefits and public assistance be subject to drug testing. Now Iowa Republican state senator Mark Chelgren (Ottumwa) proposed Thursday that people who receive child support payments should also be drug tested if the person paying the support requests it, according to a report at Think Progress.

Chelgren submitted the measure as an amendment to a budget bill currently before the Iowa state senate. He claims the idea for the proposal came from an unidentified constituent who was concerned that his ex wife was using child support money to buy drugs.

[...] The Des Moines Register‘s “Iowa Politics” blog reports that the proposal was met by hoots of derision and open laughter by some Democrats. Sen. Jack Hatch (D-Des Moines) decried the measure as anti-woman and warned that it could be easily abused in acrimonious divorces by “vindictive spouses.”

Yes, exactly. Not that there’s ever been an acrimonious divorce or a vindictive ex-husband.

Drug tests for ‘any kind’ of federal aid? Let’s do this!

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Bob Cesca has a great idea, and why we should all wholeheartedly agree with Newt and his drug-testing ideas:

Newt Gingrich pitching a right-wing standard:

“I think that we need to consider taking more explicit steps to make it expensive to be a drug user. It could be through testing before you get any kind of federal aid. Unemployment compensation, food stamps, you name it.”

You name it? Okay, you’re on! The drug testing should include anyone who receives federal subsidies. Oil companies ($24 billion), defense contractors ($12 billion), the financial sector (trillions!) — all of them. Let’s drug test the entire management team of each company from the CEO to the board and all the way down the line. If anyone fails the test, take away their federal aid, just like Newt Gingrich says.

While we’re at it, let’s also test Stepford wives who tend to look a little spacey: