Dracula Davis and his dumb excuses

The congressmoron from my district - the embattled Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) - has struck once again! This time, he's coming up with flimsy excuses for his tobacco vote.

The House voted overpoweringly this week to give the FDA some oversight over tobacco. Tobacco is a drug. And that's what the 'D' in the FDA stands for.

But Drac voted against giving the FDA this power.

I realize that tobacco occurs in nature. And I know that scientists now work with tobacco to find alternate uses for it, instead of just letting the crop be monopolized by big cigarette makers. Today, researchers are close to making new medicines and petroleum substitutes out of tobacco.

But it's still a drug. And the government can and does regulate drugs. This is accomplished through the FDA. If you regulate, you can at least sort out what's safe and what isn't. The bill passed by the House wouldn't let the FDA ban tobacco outright - but it would allow tobacco to be regulated.

The FDA's ability to regulate tobacco is especially crucial because smoking is the cause of 25% of Americans' health expenses.

Still, Geoff Davis voted against letting the FDA regulate. His excuse is that the FDA is overworked already. Gee, whose fault is that? Drac's allies have helped defund the FDA for years. They believe in "big government for thee, not for me." (Or is that the other way around?)

If Davis is worried about the government getting too big, he's a hypocrite. This is the same creep who wanted to force schools to conduct strip searches, after all.

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