Cooper: Lawmakers Ruining Schoolkids’ Bill ‘Could Have Just Pooped’ on It

Politics really is the worst. That was the thrust of Anderson Cooper‘s “Ridiculist” segment tonight, involving a fourth-grade class who proposed a bill to the State House to designate the red-tailed hawk as the “state raptor.”

Instead of just voting on the children’s bill and moving on, lawmakers actually argued over whether voting on it is pointless. Cooper said, “They could have just pooped on the bill right in front of the kids.”

But he did think this was a great political education for the kids; showing them how lawmakers “take a totally innocuous idea, something that doesn’t seem like it could possibly be controversial in the slightest, then spend 18 minutes talking about what a waste of time it is while simultaneously nitpicking its details.”

Oh, and then there was the lawmaker that suggested the hawk could be a Planned Parenthood symbol. Cooper figured the fourth-graders must have been terribly confused by that one.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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