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"Blanton Foghorn has never failed to insert our language directly into bills."
-- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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Chairman, Subcommittee on Bridge Abutments, Airport Reforestation,
and Pancreas Transplants. Co-Chairman, Temporary Standing Joint
Committee on Quotable Non Sequiturs.
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Here is some of the legislation I have sponsored this year:

Crime,
taxes, and bad weather are clearly caused by loud, disgusting music listened to
by so many of today’s young and promoted by record companies that have no
offices in West Carolina. That is why I have proposed the Bad Music Mute Act,
which would require radio and TV stations to “mute” any song containing
undesirable words or phrases (“slap,” “ho,” “the night together,”
“social justice,” etc.), any rapping when there ought to be singing, and any
back-beat more modern than the Drifters. In the sort of cynical display of
transparent mutual self-promotion that makes this country great, pop star Mindy
D’Stasio joined me in unveiling the bill. Buy her CD today!

Why
do you pay $9.50 to see just one movie
today, often a movie with far too many ACLU-supporting actors and not enough
breasts, when 50 cents used to buy two movies?
I say it’s time all movie bills were double features again. That would keep
the young off the streets and in the back rows petting where they belong! I know
I’ll be in the back rows petting one of my interns, and I invite you to join
me at the Second Annual Blorple Falls Film
Festival.
Polls show that Americans think
government spending must be reduced, except when it comes to them. That's the
way I feel too! My legislation would require deep cuts in federal expenditures
in other people's districts. A companion bill, the Other Guy's Entitlements Elimination Act,
would extend the benefits of self-reliance to other people by cutting their entitlements,
while increasing benefits for anyone who meets a simple needs test, such as owning two homes.
When you read about billions in tax money
flushed down the drain for useless government projects, don't you just turn red
in the face, clench your fists in anger, and want to shout, "When will I get a
piece of this action?!" That's certainly how I feel. That's why my bill would
create a national commission to ensure that every congressional district contains
at least one useless federal project. And there are plenty of useless projects that
the 12th District would be just right for, let me assure you!
As you know, I originally ran for Congress
in 1994 on a platform of term limits, vowing that I would not under any circumstances
stay in Washington more than six years. However, I have decided that in order to
serve the national interest, and on the advice of my accountant, I must force myself
to remain in office indefinitely. Rest assured, virtually all my conservative colleagues
here on Capitol Hill feel they have no choice but to force themselves to break their
promises about term limits too! But isn't it time those liberals were subjected to term
limits? How about imposing automatic term limits on anyone who votes to increase
health-insurance coverage!
Bleeding-heart judges coddle criminals and treat
them better than honest working people. My act would end this injustice by making
every American an indicted felon. Think of the privileges you'd enjoy! Also, if
every man and woman in America were under indictment, the newspapers would pay
less attention to certain upcoming government announcements regarding my fund-raising techniques.
You were probably as shocked as
I was to read that the General Accounting Office has discovered that the new AH88
"Ghostbuster" attack helicopter, which is manufactured in the 12th District, has
failed all its tests. For instance, the guidance system of the "Ghostbuster," which
is supposed to enable the helicopter to fly sideways at 600 mph through snowstorms,
instead cannot locate the Great Lakes. That is why I have offered this bill, which
would cancel further testing of the "Ghostbuster" and put it into full production
immediately, before more defects are revealed.
Reports are coming in from all across the
country that people have been threatening to desecrate firearms by burning them!
Several protesters recently threatened the health of a handgun in full view of women,
children, and persons who might have been U.S. veterans. I say we act now to amend the
Constitution to make it a crime to blaspheme or despoil any firearm.
Now that the federal budget is finally in surplus,
those liberals don't plan to return the money to you. No, they want to irresponsibly
apply the surplus to retiring the federal debt. Why give the billions to future generations,
who for all we know will be handgun-burning lesbians, when we could all get a slice of the
pie right now, by running history's greatest lotto! Don't you think a lottery with a
$70 billion payoff will sell a few tickets? Then we use the income from the lottery to
finance the things this country really needs, such as tax cuts for the rich, prep-school
vouchers, and discount gasoline for SUV owners.
Today the institutions of marriage and the family
are under constant attack from secular humanism and liberal relativism. Every time one
of my ex-wives hauls me into court I think, "Dredging up these past youthful indiscretions
and child-support technicalities is no way to protect the sacred bond of marriage!"
And every time I've dumped an aging wife to marry someone younger, I have said to myself,
"Other people shouldn't be allowed to do this!" That's why my new wife, the lovely Darlene
Foghorn, and I have joined Judeo-Christians for Mandatory Family Values, an important new
organization dedicated to denouncing all those who disagree with it. In fact, Darlene is
completing an essay on mandatory family values for her high-school junior-year project.
The liberals and the tree-huggers are complaining
about global warming, but hasn't it occurred to anyone that greenhouse gases and the
stock market are both going up at the same time? Do you think that's a coincidence?? I
don't! Scientific studies by the Saudi Fuels Association have shown that the more air
pollution there is, the higher the stock market will rise. My bill would encourage a
dramatic increase in global warming by offering tax incentives to purchase SUVs and
creating a new "greenhouse depletion allowance" for oil companies.
Since I own an SUV dealership, the pundits have
accused me of having an interest in this bill. I confess that I do have an interest
in anything that makes America bigger and heavier! If that's a crime, I plead guilty!
This is why my bill would create preferential lanes for SUVs on the interstate highway
system and grant SUV owners special fuel-subsidy loans. Buy an SUV today, and help make
this great nation the heaviest country on Earth!
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