Speaking of Republicans who can’t keep their principles straight, Donald Trump’s biggest boldest policy initiative this week comes from translating his wife’s whispers into a huge Executive Branch regulatory reach that bans thousands of consumer products without seeking any input from Congress.
Republicans don’t mind that Trump has decided to ban flavored vaping products, but the vendors recognize Republicans’ continued abandonment of Republican principles:
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) confirmed there had been no communication from the White House or federal health agencies, adding. “But that’s okay. I’m just glad they’re taking action.”
However, some Republicans and outside conservative groups have blasted proposed flavor bans and other sales restrictions as overreach that could push former smokers back onto cigarettes.
“It is incredibly discouraging to see an administration that has prided itself in rolling back regulatory red tape now try to run the American people’s lives for them,” said Dan Savickas regulatory policy manager at FreedomWorks, which supports smaller government. “Flavored e-cigarettes have been a vital option for so many Americans who want to quit smoking. Government involvement in this case, as it always does, will cause more harm than good” [Sarah OwerMohle, Anita Kumar, and Adam Cancryn, “Melania Versus the Vapers,” Politico, 2019.09.11].
Hey, you asked for it, conservatives—now you’ve got it: a White House governed not by any principle whatsoever but by impulses inspired by the most recent whisper that suggests a way to win ratings and votes.
What one thing brought Trump to make a non-selfish decision like this? He has a thirteen year old son. The prime age to start using nicotine. He doesn’t really recognize Barron, much. He said this week, talking about Melania, “She has a son.”
As has been noted multiple times elsewhere, it only took less than a dozen deaths for White Whiner to jump on it and make changes in vaping. But the thousands and thousands of gun deaths? Nope. Nothing needs to be done because it’s White Whiner’s white supremacist pals doing the terrorizing.
So a person choosing to damage their lungs by vaping is not an acceptable risk in society while a person who blows out your lungs with a high powered weapon is considered an acceptable risk in society. How ever did the framers of the Constitution forget to include vaping?
Apparently, American society is mostly nuts!!
Look in Barron’s eyes. There’s nothing behind them.
I would expect that this is the exact kind of person to obtain an assault rifle and ……………
If the e-cigarettes are dangerous, what about assault rifles ???
I guess Jon, Marion and Dusty don’t have kids.
President Trump reversed his stance somewhat on this after listening to his constituents. He’s in favor of “getting ride of counterfeits and making sure that children aren’t vaping”.
Still waiting for regulatory rollbacks on abortion restrictions. Grassley is ok with lawbreaking as long as it serves his purposes. Obama would have been impeached retroactively.
For the record, Drumpf could give a ^&#$ about kids, but he doesn’t.