Hey Guys;

I don't suppose this is a good time to make the announcement about Henry
Waxman's new book in which he details his life-long crusade to protect the
American public.

At least, it was news to me. I nearly fell over in the bookstore.

Ironic or just downright funny?

Sanford

Sanford M. Gross, OD, FAAO
Associate Professor
Illinois College of Optometry
3241 South Michigan Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60616

>>> Brian Mailman <bmailman@...> 7/6/2009 1:01 AM >>>
Michael wrote:
> I agree,

No, I don't think you do, since you continue to misclassify. My point
is that classing someone(s) that disagree with you as "the other" is
simply the same dynamic as the conservatives you are bashing employ and
you should know which is which, anyway.

> however, my "conservative-bashing" includes wolves-in-sheeps-clothing
> like Henry Waxman, who never say a paternalistic law to control your
> behavior because you're-too-stupid-to-do-it-yourself that he didn't
> champion.

Which is a trad "liberal" position. To have an agency or bureau
control, (e.g., expanded governmental control) things that individuals
in a Jeffersonian model can and should control for themselves.

> Waxman's Answers Drugs/steroids in sports! - Ban steroids from all
> uses. Michael Jackson dies of painkillers. -Ban painkillers. Vitamins
> compete with drugs, according to FDA in the federal register. -Make
> vitamins into prescription-only items.

Those are not trad conservative positions, as I said. You're describing
aspects of the nanny state. What the conservatives wish is a smaller
government with less regulation (Bush, Rove, and Co. are an extreme
aberration). As you seem to do.

B/

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