Congress poised to regulate tobacco (next week)

TimesDispatch.com ^ | Feb 9, 2007 | PETER HARDIN

[SheLion]

WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan legislation to give the federal Food and Drug Administration regulatory control over tobacco products may be introduced next week.

[freespirited]

The FDA regulates foods, drugs, and cosmetics. Tobacco is none of these. So why ask the FDA boobocracy to regulate it? (They don't exactly do a stellar job with the food and drug stuff.)

[upchuck]

The Donks won't ban tobacco for the same reason they fight against the Fair Tax. Both take away the tax dollars they love to control.

[KoRn]

This will certainly lead to the eventual end of tobacco products. I'd be willing to bet there will be over 60 votes and it would even survive a veto.

Tobacco is the modern day legislator's favorite 'whooping boy', except for legislators from North Carolina and Virginia.

[gcruse]

When they came for the RU48, I said nothing, for I cannot get pregnant.
When they came for the online gambling, I said nothing, for I am not Bill Bennett.
When they came for the marijuana, I said nothing, for I am not a junkie.
When they came for my tobacco, there was no one left to speak for me.

[Edit35]

Sen. Richard M. Burr, R-N.C., recently told the Winston-Salem Journal he would work to block Senate passage of any bill allowing for FDA regulation of cigarettes. "I would use every legislative tool at my disposal," he vowed.

THAT's the kind of attitude I want to see from all Republicans on every hairbrained Democrap scheme that makes its way into Congress.

I am sick and tired of Republican wimps!!

[EVO X]

Tobacco is none of these

It is classified as a poison..

[nothingnew]

...when all those crazy freepers tried to convince me to not vote republican, just to show them we are mad. Well now they know how mad we are. Hope the crazy ones are happy now.

Time to find a new tune...sing a different song...

Every "conservative" or "republican" I know, and I know a lot of them, voted last cycle. The pubpols lost this one because they stood for nothing except dem-lite and they lost the "moderate" vote. Get off the whining and hold those in office responsible for this crap. It wasn't the conservative voters!

FMCDH(BITS)

[Normal4me]

Normal4me poised to quit paying federal income taxes...

[pissant]

The GOP better tell Nostrildamus to go pound sand

[w1andsodidwe]

Well, I don't have to hide my head and feel guilty, but plenty here do.

[KevinDavis]

Next is fast food....

[gcruse]

You're right. I forgot trans fats, lol

[tacticalogic]

Yet it is one of the least regulated of all consumer products,"

How many "consumer products" have their own federal bureaucracy and enforcement agency they share with only 3 or 4 other "consumer products"?

[tacticalogic]

Next is fast food....

"every blade of grass"

-Clarence Thomas

[KevinDavis]

Be Well.....

[azhenfud]

Nicotine is a drug and a VERY potent pesticide.

In fact, nicotine sulfate is listed among the deadliest of poisons.

http://scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/hazard-indicators.tcl?edf_substance_id=65%2d30%2d5

[SheLion]

With a RAT/RINO coalition running congress, they don't care about the loss of tobacco taxes....they'll just raise some other taxes to make up for it.

That's what makes me the most irate..............our own kind sticking it to us like this!  A damn RINO!

With a RAT/RINO coalition running congress, they don't care about the loss of tobacco taxes....they'll just raise some other taxes to make up for it.

That's what makes me the most irate..............our own kind sticking it to us like this!  A damn RINO!

[Calpernia]

Then what is next? Tomatoes? Artichokes?

[airborne]

Smoke 'em while you got 'em!

[OKIEDOC]

In my lowly opinion Waxman is just another Kalifornia muck diving Democrat.

He is so short of physical stature that he must exert his rather huge Nancy Peloser ego to the fullest so as to seem like he is one of the fecal good ole boys of the Dimocrat Party.