Blind woman invokes Monty Python in lawsuit against Rick Scott

[liberal N proud]

TALLAHASSEE --
Gov. Rick Scott faces a blind woman on food stamps this month at the Florida Supreme Court, where the South Florida resident is challenging Scott's handling of rulemaking by state agencies.

The hearing could prove to be colorful, if recent filings in the case -- referring to a Monty Python comedy sketch -- are any indication.

The court has scheduled a June 29 hearing in the case brought by Rosalie Whiley, a low-income resident of Opa Locka who is suing the governor over his Jan. 4 order to suspend rulemaking at all agencies subject to his authority.

The order by Scott -- a pro-business conservative who ran on a pledge to create jobs -- created an executive office to review every pending rule to ensure it did not unduly burden the private sector. The policy immediately froze hundreds of pending rules, affecting everything from environmental protections to healthcare.

<SNIP>

On May 23, Whiley's attorneys poked fun at Scott's claim to "supreme executive power" by suggesting that "the Governor's theory seems to have come from a Monty Python skit. See the discourse between 'Arthur, King of Britons' and 'Dennis the Constitutional Peasant,' from Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

http://www2.tbo.com/news/politics/2011/jun/20/lawsuit-scotts-theory-is-out-of-monty-python-movie-ar-238173/


It be true, thy governor ruleth by way of comedy, sadly.

[meegbear]

1. I thought Florida was an autonomous collective?

[Canuckistanian]

3. You're fooling yourself

We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes.....

[Kolesar]

4. There you go bringing class into it!

Best scene in the movie, btw!! !!

[driver8]

5. Ha Ha -- cracked me up!! n/t

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[tjwash]

6. Look...strange women, lying in ponds, distributing M-16s, is not a basis for a sytem of government

:rofl:

[Thav]

9. If I started calling my self the Emperor because

some moistened bink lobbed an AR-15 at me, they'd have me locked up!

[felix_numinous]

7. I found it!

Here is Monte Python to explain everything :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOOTKA0aGI0

[liberal N proud]

8. Excellent

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. Help, Help! I'm being repressed!

Did you see him repressing me? That's what I'm talking about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it didn't you?

How utterly perfect to invoke Monty Python in this case!

[edbermac]

11. Courthouse cafeteria menu: Egg and bacon, egg sausage and bacon, egg and spam...

...egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam...

[sakabatou]

12. I don't like spam!

*cue with a bunch of Vikings sining about Spam*