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Yes, it is The Onion.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/indiana-governor-insists-new-law-has-nothing-to-do,38330/
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)After all, the GOP has a long history of passing laws that do not do what the title suggests.
Take "right to work" laws. They have nothing to do with any right to work.
In 2008 George W. Bush signed legislation about the Clean Air Act that significantly relaxed standards for air quality.
There are more examples I could give, but "truth in legislation" has never been a GOP strongpoint.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Because in spite of this being "The Onion" it is exactly what happened. I wonder if the fact that satire and reality have merged will cause a paradox in the space time continuum and that's all she wrote...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)it states that satire and hard news are rapidly converging.
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. -- Art Buchwald