The “Committee To Study Study Committees”

By FITSNews || We’ve always referred to the S.C. General Assembly as “taxpayer-funded adult day care,” although in recent weeks many of our readers have pointed out that the term “adult” is probably being a bit too generous when it comes to these inbreds.

For those of you unfamiliar with how South Carolina’s legislative process “works,” it’s basically a six-month charade during which a bunch of drunk, self-important rednecks attend special interest receptions by night while carving out tax dollars for themselves, their family members and favored campaign contributors by day … all while doing absolutely nothing to solve a bunch of pressing problems that only get worse with each passing year (see here and here).

It’s a human hamster wheel, in other words.

One reason for that?

Well, whenever there’s a problem that lawmakers (or for that matter governors or gubernatorial candidates) lack the political will to fix, they simply form a committee, commission, round table, blue ribbon task force or some other hoity toity circle jerk to “study” it.

Seriously, people … there are more study committees in S.C. state government than there are problems to study … which is saying something in a state that’s first in everything bad and last in everything good.

And of course, once these “study committees” are done, their reports invariably end up gathering dust on a shelf somewhere.

Well, for the first time ever, one lawmaker has had enough of all the “studying.”

Sources tell FITS that S.C. Rep. Michael Thompson (R – Anderson) has filed legislation that would create “The South Carolina Study Committee Study Committee,” which as its name suggests would study the various study committees in an effort to determine what it is that they’re actually … well, studying.

We’re endeavoring to locate a copy of the draft resolution right now, but we’ve been told it’s absolutely hilarious … as well as a compelling indictment of the legislature’s chronic failure to address any of South Carolina’s most pressing problems.

Stay tuned …

UPDATE: It’s true! Here’s the draft legislation … SO funny!