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Actions Of GOP Fringe Not Funny

Writing for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News editorial board, Devin Rokyta comments:

The paranoia permeating the far right of the Republican party in Idaho is usually more laughable than anything. We know their bills trying to advance measures like those calling for the carrying of concealed firearms without any permit or training, "taking back" of federal lands that have never belonged to Idaho, nullifying federal gun control laws and Environmental Protection Agency regulations, and forcing high school students to read Ayn Rand will go nowhere. And if such bills somehow make it past the governor's desk, we can normally be sure a court somewhere will call their nonsense out for what it is. But we can't exactly call those on the fringe harmless. Unfortunately, they have loud and powerful voices in Idaho - and throughout the nation - and their hate and neurosis isn't always escapable. More here.

Question: Do you consider the actions of the Idaho GOP fringe to be laughable?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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