He’s a real mother, alright
Get ready, America, for a return to the 1970s era of federally-mandated nationwide 55 mph speed limits, emission-strangled automobile engines, and speedometers topping out at 85.
Barack Obama has appointed America’s Safety-Nazi-in-Chief Charles A. Hurley, current head of Mothers Against Drunk Driving to preside over the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Well, you’re living in the Nanny State now, boys and girls. Hurley is a long time advocate of drastically more extensive federal supervision of your naughty driving.
He is on the record as supporting a .04% Blood Alcohol Content limit, meaning you are guilty of DUI if you sip one glass of Chardonnay at dinner, and he favors vastly expanded pullover alcohol checks to enforce it, along with breathalyzer-ignition interlocks.
Expect to see the federally mandatory 55 mph speed limit again, expanded liability opportunities for trial lawyers, and a nationwide regime of stoplight and speed check cameras everywhere.
Repeat after me: “I love Big Brother!”
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Hat tip to Walter Olson.
Richard Mamches
Thankfully, Hurley, a long-time member of the First Velociphobia Church of the Double Nickels, withdrew his nomination to be head of NHTSA in 2009. Good riddance to the 55 mph National Maximum Speed Limit, the “most ignored law since the days of Prohibition,” according to NBC News in 1987.
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