Republicans to End the Era of Nanny States: Children to Be Free to Smoke Once Again!

[evildevil]

Republicans Fighting Hard for the Freedom to Blacken Our Children's Lungs!

After Accepting $290,000 from Tobacco Industry, House Conservatives Push ‘Cigarettes For Children’ Amendment

Last week, the House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment by Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) that would immunize the tobacco industry against many FDA regulations

Comments

[captain_emily]

OH, COME ON!

This is getting ridiculous! What the fuck are the Republicans thinking? This is so fucking wrong!

If I wrote a story about a political party that wanted to make it easier to get children addicted to cigarettes, to do away with child labor laws, and to tax girl scout cookies, my editor would send it back with a nasty little note telling me that the villains were too transparently evil and that I should at least try to make it a little more realistic. And that's just the stupidly evil bits, which doesn't even begin to cover the rampant misogyny, racism, homophobia, classism, etc.

[lykomancer]

No kidding. It's amazing; you can't make this shit up.

[lizzy_someone]

It reminds me of Kick The Dog (warning for TV tropes: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KickTheDog).

[celtic_thistle]

How on EARTH is this a positive thing? Oh, right, capitalism! Money > people.

[schexyschteve]

What the hell is wrong with these people? I just have so many things to say, yet nothing to say at all.

[cheatpolygraphs]

how is this creating jobs

[magus_69]

Somebody has to wear those "Nicky the Happy Cigarette" suits!

[wrestlingdog]

IA, David Byrne. IA.

[liret]

I actually kind of like when politicians are honest about how they just completely don't care about people. Usually they're just like "Oh, we support letting big corporations do whatever the hell they want, but that's just because it's good for the economy in a way you can't understand. Trust us."

I'd rather deal with people who admit they don't care if our kids get cancer or lifelong addictions, because they tobacco companies can pay them and we can't.