Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths in the U.S.

Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by netsharc on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:00PM (#37550193)

At the moment I can't think of Democrats sabotaging things that would be good for the American public to benefit themselves politically; care to find examples for me? Then we can put the examples of Republicans doing that on one side of the scale, and the examples of Democrats doing that on the other side, and call them equally bad... ;-)

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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by CoastalCoder on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:08PM (#37550252)

I could give some examples, but I think this would just devolve into an unproductive partisan fight.

(Which would be ironic, but I don't support either party.)

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Re:Geographic ‘hot spots’ for cigarette and firearm deaths i... by humanrebar on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:20PM (#37550761)

Democrats could reform specific legal immigration systems, for instance revamping the H1B program, to be less nonsensical. But the incentive is to lump that reform in with other kinds of immigration reform.

Same could be said about taking a more piecemeal and less legally inventive approach to healthcare reform back under the Obama administration. They passed exactly as much as they thought they could squeak through the legislative process. A plan with 2/3 consensus could have been pursued but they decided to burn all the political capital they could instead. Enter Trump shortly later... a "fighter".

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