Think of the children... in leather

This gives me an idea: it'd be interesting if someone proposed intentionally moribund legislation so wrong-headed, image-driven, and just flat out fucking goofy that tracking who bought into it revealed just how unfit for their jobs those legislators were-- sort of like the mole hunt they did in that Mission Impossible movie, `cept in reverse. An un-intelligence mole hunt. The equivalent of pretending you put booze in the punch to see who starts to act like they're drunk. Not that I think for a second this is what is going on here with Senator McCain, I've no doubt he's so empty a douche nozzle that trying to get everyone on the internet to play Little Brother strikes him as a reasonable way to come off as being hard on child porn (heh - that was fun to type), but I wonder if there was ever a point in the Senate's history when its members would care enough to try such a thing, to try to flush out the impressively dim among themselves with a fake bill.

" What's this? You want to make white women ...wear antlers in public? Antler antlers?"
" Yeah, it's to keep the Negroes off of them."
" Huh."
" Not bad, right? We got like 90 signatures so far. Lot of momentum on the Moose Or The Noose Act these days. Trent Lott's baby before his troubles, he drafted it after the Make Them Wear Bells proposal went tits up. Sign it for Trent, willya?"

Maybe that's what happened to the Whig Party. Never hear from them anymore. We used to have more than one and a half political parities in the US. We used to have The Whig Party. One Tuesday in the 1850s there were a whole bunch of Whigs clogging up the Senate, then by Thursday it was just John Tyler and nine nervous looking Democrats hugging themselves and wondering why suddenly all the extra legroom. Bet someone dope-billed the Whig Party. Bet the Whigs suddenly tried to make nose whistles in church punishable by tar, or make scorpion chewing mandatory. Something like that.

"Where the hell are McManus and those Whig guys? And hey, who tried to pass this bill requesting that 'goodly Christian men of The United States should sand down their nipples to chest level so as to remain appropriately modest in the winter months?!'"