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<\/a>It seems that several GOP members were concerned about the level of spending authorized by the bill in these tough economic times.\u00a0 Fair enough, and a reasonable debate to have.\u00a0 But rather than debate the issue on the merits, Hall introduced a motion to recommit<\/a>.<\/p>\n His motion proposed to add a new provision that would bar the federal government from paying the salaries of employees who’ve viewed pornography at work.<\/p>\n The way the motion works is that Congressmen either need to vote against it, authorizing the bill to continue on its way to a floor vote, or vote for it, which causes the bill to go back to committee where it will languish and possibly die.\u00a0 But this motion was laden with “Do you still beat your wife?” strategy.\u00a0 Congressmen voting against the motion would surely look forward to their opponents in the upcoming mid-term election running ads about how they voted to allow federal employees to watch porn at work.\u00a0 Yet voting for it means a dramatic delay in the funding, likely causing the current programs to end while the bill tries to make its way out of committee again.\u00a0 And to no one’s surprise, the risk-averse Congress voted for the motion. Thus cementing their anti-porn cred, and condemning the bill to committee Limbo.<\/p>\n No one is advocating for government workers to spend your tax dollars watching porn.\u00a0 There are rules against that now, and surely better ways to deal with it than amendments to unrelated legislation.\u00a0 But in the end, this motion had nothing to do with porn in the workplace.\u00a0 It had only to do with using fear of porn as a political lever to kill an otherwise good bill.\u00a0 And that is the true perversion here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This may well be the most perverted use of pornography I’ve ever seen. It was used by the GOP to<\/p>\n