We need an IQ test for politicians

[longknife]

By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS, Last Updated: 11:52 PM, April 7, 2013

While politicians talk about expanding background checks for gun owners, I’m starting to think that what we really need are IQ tests for political officeholders. The only problem is, that might leave us with a lot of vacancies in Congress and America’s statehouses.

The debacle over New York’s rushed-through gun bill is one example of what happens when enthusiasm meets stupid. But another is to be found in Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), who supports a ban on full-capacity magazines without understanding what a magazine actually is.

I certainly can't argue with this article @ We need an IQ test for politicians - NYPOST.com

 

[iamwhatiseem]

No...we need to put most of them in jail.

 

[TheOldSchool]

No...we need to put most of them in jail.

^I like this one.

 

[Oldguy]

Why blame politician's? We're the ones who put them there...and KEEP them there!

 

[Agit8r]

Why blame politician's? We're the ones who put them there...and KEEP them there!

Agreed.

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe their minds must be improved to a certain degree. This indeed is not all that is necessary, though it be essentially necessary."
-- Thomas Jefferson, from 'Notes on the State of Virginia' Query 14

 

[OKTexas]

Yep, we need an IQ test for voters that put these dumb asses in office and keep reelecting them. Politicians are only the symptom of an illiterate electorate.

 

[BreezeWood]

We need an IQ test for politicians

what will that do for their sticky fingers ?

 

[asaratis]

Yep, we need an IQ test for voters that put these dumb asses in office and keep reelecting them. Politicians are only the symptom of an illiterate electorate.

That won't work. We can't deny the vote to qualified voters and bein' a citizen over a certain age is the only qualification. If we could discriminate against dumb folks and not let them vote, the liberals wouldn't have a chance of winnin' any elections. We'd have to come up with a new word. The dumb ones would be called winaninnies...too dumb to be winnin' any elections.