Magnifisyncopathological: Creeping Statism Watch

March 26, 2003

Creeping Statism Watch

Senator Jeff Wentworth wants to punish you for driving with your headlights off...but only if you're using your windshield wipers due to bad weather.

Currently, Texas law requires the use of automobile headlights at night, or when visibility is less than 1,000 feet. There is no requirement to use headlights in inclement weather that could obstruct a driver's field of vision. Texas law also requires that a motor vehicle be equipped with windshield wipers. As proposed, S.B. 204 requires the use of headlights when the operator of a motor vehicle is using the vehicle's windshield wipers and prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle when weather conditions cause obtructions on a window that materially impede the operator's clear view.

Wentworth is a Republican. Senator John Whitmire, however, is a Democrat. Whitmire had this to say about the bill.

Failure to comply with the rule could result in a $1 to $200 fine, Wentworth said.

Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, told lawmakers he would vote against the bill, saying it would bring government "to the front seat of our car."

I applaud you, Mr. Whitmire. Though the correct thing to say would be it would bring government further to the front seat of our cars, I'll give you props for standing up and voting against this completely unnecessary piece of legislative dogshit. It seems Wentworth (whom I met while on a high school field trip) has forgotten the principles of his party's supposed philsophy.

Posted by Drizzten at March 26, 2003 08:14 PM

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Lemme get this straight. He wants to make it illegal to drive if the weather conditions are making it hard to see? And also he wants to make it illegal to drive with headlights off in rain whilst using windscreen wipers?

As a person who goes apeshit when people are so inconsiderate as to leave their lights off in the rain, I dont mind laws which would make it illegal to do so. I also fully applaud laws which make it illegal to use highbeam in suburbia and within the city.

Posted by: Ken on March 29, 2003 04:15 AM

question: Should you really be trying to currect Senator Whitmire's english when your vocabulary consist of dogshit.

Posted by: Sarah on June 16, 2003 03:08 AM

Sarah, I don't understand what you're saying. I wasn't correcting his (E)nglish and my vocabularly consist(s) of more than dogshit.

My point was that his statement is factually incorrect. The government is already "in the front seat of our car" due to automotive manufacturing regulations, seatbelt laws, etc. Therefore, it isn't honest to say this proposed law would be something new.

But if you disagree with that, I'm all ears. At least it'd be better than trying to insult my vocabulary.

Posted by: Drizz on June 16, 2003 11:48 AM

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