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On the recordApril 21, 1998
every so often we notice that the President cannot manage to keep his liberal demons away. In the early days, it was gays in the military and socialized medicine. Now the President has decided it is a good idea to provide free IV needles to illegal drug users, free IV needles to illegal drug users. I am just wondering what polling the President has been doing lately, because the moms and dads I talk to are very worried about illegal drugs. Most Americans do not have a Ph.D. in psychology, but they do have a lot of common sense. Many of them know what happens to an addict surrounded by enablers. Now we have the mother of all enablers, the Federal Government, encouraging the use of needles to drug abusers so that they might continue abusing drugs 'safely.' Maybe that is what passes for common sense in this administration.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Criticizing the President's policy on providing free IV needles to drug users.

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