Among this month’s embarrassing Republican spectacles has been the sight of Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and touting the expansion of places where smoking is permitted in the U.S. Capitol as being “all about freedom.”
Nehls was already plenty free to light one up privately. But what is freedom to the Republicans if not the ability to imperil somebody else?
At no point have members of Congress been banned from smoking in their offices. The 2007 ban on smoking included more public areas of the U.S. Capitol Complex, which means that Nehls was already plenty free to light up one privately. But what is freedom to the Republicans if not the ability to imperil somebody else?
Carlson prefaced his segment with Nehls by railing against Covid-19 vaccines. Then he threw in the lie that the Biden administration has been “actively encouraging” Americans to use “meth and crack.” And then he set Nehls up to pummel liberals with this…
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