This is too funny. First, a bit of backstory:
The Georgia state legislature, on top of the latest threats, is holding hearings on a bill to ban implanting people with microchips -- as one rumor suggested the Health Care Reform bill mandated.
Because the best use of lawmaker's time is to address the bullshit in those viral emails your wingnut aunt forwards to you. Actually, for Republicans nowadays, those emails are called "policy".
And in this case, the Republican legislators got more than they bargained for...
TPM describes what happened when the committee considering the legislation began to hear testimony:
The Journal-Constitution reports that things started getting weird when a woman who described herself as a resident of DeKalb County told the committee: "I'm also one of the people in Georgia who has a microchip." Apparently no lawmaker took this as a warning sign, and she was allowed to continue her testimony.
Uh-oh. I think I see where this is going.
"Microchips are like little beepers," the woman told the committee. "Just imagine, if you will, having a beeper in your rectum or genital area, the most sensitive area of your body. And your beeper numbers displayed on billboards throughout the city. All done without your permission."
Yeah, just imagine. Actually, don't.
"Ma'am, did you say you have a microchip?" state Rep. Tom Weldon (R) asked the woman.
"Yes, I do. This microchip was put in my vaginal-rectum area," she replied.
No one laughed. State Rep. Wendell Willard (R), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked her who had implanted the chip.
"The Department of Defense," she said.
And after carefully considering her testimony:
Willard thanked the woman for her input, and the committee later approved the bill.
Ladies and gentlemen, today's GOP.
Next bill up for consideration: The PBF Preservation Act of 2010. And the first up to testify: