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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Your Daily Moment Of Legislative Depravity


Today, Montana Rep. Denny Rehberg - who is running for Senate and must need campaign contributions - introduced legislation that would:

immunize the tobacco industry against many FDA regulations preventing them from making tobacco more addictive and marketing it to children.

At this point, I'm half convinced that being a Republican member of Congress is a mental illness.

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