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Right-wing morons never cease to amaze me in their quest to prove that they are totally out of whack with common decency and common sense. Their sole quest appears to be to counter anything that has the slightest tinge of liberalism attached to it.  This includes opposing the humane treatment of animals.

In the latest example of insanity from a right-wing run amok, a coalition of kooks are battling…

…to stop the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and other animal rights groups from passing “radical” anti-puppy mill legislation.

The measure, which can be read in full here, is called Proposition B or the “Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act.” It aims to help eliminate the “3000 puppy mills” in Missouri that constitute “30% of all puppy mills in the U.S.,” according to Michael Markarian, the Chief Operating Officer of the HSUS.

“This measure would provide common sense standards for the care of dogs,” Markarian told TPM, including sufficient food and clean water, vet care, regular exercise, and adequate rest between breeding cycles, among other things. Markarian said the measure only applies to “commercial dog breeding facilities” that have more than 10 breeding females who they use for “producing puppies for the pet trade.”

Who in their right mind could possibly oppose the elimination of farms where animals are deprived the basics of humane care?

Teabaggers, Joe the Plumber and a Missouri group called the Alliance for Truth.

…according to the Alliance For Truth, the main force behind the anti-Prop B movement, there is something much more nefarious afoot (er, apaw) in the HSUS measure. The Alliance For Truth claims that the HSUS has a “radical agenda” and is “misleading the public with its intentions on Prop B. The society seeks only to raise the cost of breeding dogs, making it ever-more difficult for middle-class American families to be dog-owners.”

Anita Andrews from Alliance For Truth told TPM that it’s a “deceptive, lying bill” that is “trying to purposefully get rid of the breeders.” The state of Missouri, she said, has been given a bad rap as “the puppy mill capitol” of the U.S. but “in truth we have the best ribbon breeders in the country.” And, Andrews said, the state already has anti-cruelty laws on the books.

“They don’t like animals,” she said of the Humane Society of the United States.

The Missouri Tea Party and the Tea Party Express have joined the Alliance for Truth in opposing the anti-puppy mill legislation.  As well, Joe ‘The Idiot” Plumber has chimed in with this bit of stupidity.

…the HSUS is “cowardly hiding behind animal cruelty, lying to our citizens and taking our constitutional rights away – one state at a time.”

Fuck you, Joe.  Fuck you, teabaggers and fuck you the Alliance for Truth!  Anyone who fights against the elimination of puppy mills should be subjected to one week in a cold, five foot square, dirt-encrusted, disease plagued cage with twenty dying and sick puppies who have never seen a veterinarian and share a single bowl of water every few days.  I’ve had the sad experience of having walked through a puppy farm and it is a sight I will never forget.  In a scene reminiscent of photos from concentration camps, animals lay in squalor and filth with bones clearly protruding against their skin.  It literally made you cry.

I am so fed up with right-wing bastards who scream out Nazi-liberalism at every act of decency and hide behind a Constitution they are so woefully clueless about.  Stupid no longer begins to describe these people.  I’ve come to the conclusion they’re just plain fucking evil.

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