…In part, Republicans are just playing dumb. Over the summer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer \u201craised their warning of tanning beds from \u2018probably carcinogenic to humans\u2019<\/font> to \u2018carcinogenic to humans,\u2019<\/a>\u201d concluding that \u201cthe ultraviolet light used in tanning beds (as with the sun\u2019s rays) has been shown to raise the risk of skin cancer<\/strong>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n I call this the Boner Provision, because Rep. Boner is so well known for his greasy fake tan. He must be having a conniption fit. However, given the health effects, the provision should be modified. Any GOP member of the House or Senate should have unlimited use of such facilities at taxpayer expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Nevada Leg Hound did one good thing in his amendment. Sen. Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) decision to replace the so-called Botox-tax in the Senate health care bill with a 10 percent levy on indoor tanning salons has sparked quite the outrage. Republican lawmakers, appalled at the idea of using spray tans to maintain those artificial […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Obama](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/GOPCantStandtheBonerProvision_2203\/boehnertanned.jpg\" "\\"Obama")
<\/a> Sen. Harry Reid\u2019s (D-NV) decision to replace the so-called Botox-tax in the Senate health care bill with a<\/font> 10 percent levy on indoor tanning salons<\/a> has sparked quite the outrage. Republican lawmakers, appalled at the idea of using spray tans to maintain those artificial orange glows for the C-SPAN cameras, stumbled and stuttered their way through an incoherent critique of the tax<\/strong>, demanding that Democrats \u201cexplain\u201d the new fee and joking that that the government could tax \u201canyone who goes to the beach\u201d or doesn\u2019t wear sunscreen that blocks \u201ceverything that the sun might produce.\u201d\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n