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Originally Posted by Flat4boxer
You can't have "tons" of "conservative, republican and even some centrist support" from a democratically controlled house and senate.
The numbers just don't support "tons". You might get away with "one or two jumping ship" but not "tons".  |
Tons in this instance is not indicative of majority of the entire political spectrum but rather enough to oppose an argument that it is always "liberals" that are blocking or impeding smoking freedoms.
I mean on the S-CHIP bill one quarters of republicans voted for and the other three quarters werent always against the principle of the bill but rather the extremity of it. This isnt the case for the Senate though in that particular vote.
The FDA being able to regulate tobacco was passed 79 for 17 against. If we were to assume that the then 59 democrats voted for it then , a majority of the Republican Senate was still in favor of it.
For example Utah a majoirty republican state passes anti-smoking law, same with my state Arizona.
I'm not liberal at all, but it just irks me when I see pointless namecalling, pigeonholing and general ignorance of a subject. If you really want to smoke in peace you are going to have to know your enemy and not just assume who they are.
In fact I would say recent lobbying has more of an impact on anti-tobacco law than liberals.
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I wrote this a bit hastily, so sorry for any incoherence.