Senate passes bill expanding stem cell research.
By on Jul 18th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Senate passes bill expanding stem cell research.
63-37. Not enough to override a veto, which President Bush has promised.
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Oh my God! A blastocyst holocaust in the making!
-GSD
July 18th, 2006 at 5:10 pmFor Democrats, that veto threat could be just what the doctor ordered. In a nutshell, Bush’s 2006 base-baiting, red meat strategy could well backfire when it comes to stem cell research.
For the details, see:
July 18th, 2006 at 5:13 pm“Bush Stem Cell Veto Threat is Dems’ Opportunity.”
I’ll believe a veto when I see it. The Dems should have tried to get some military funding included in the bill so Bush could not veto it lest he look soft on defense. Of course soft on defense is probably better than dumb on defense, which is what we have now.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:21 pmBlastocyst? I am a tiny homunculus sitting in the head of a sperm!
July 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pmThis is going to be interesting, GWB’s first veto. Will he really do it? Will he cave in and issue a signing statement?
July 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pmSo, which backwards ass redneck dipshits voted against it?
If any of these people contract anything that can be solve using stem cell research, they should be denied access to the treatment for their votes of nay.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:22 pmGreen Party Members: Still think there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush!!??
July 18th, 2006 at 5:23 pmIt amazes me
July 18th, 2006 at 5:24 pmBush thinks more about an American Stem cell than a Palestinian
Time Capsule, I’ll go you one better. Bush thinks more about an American Stem cell than an American soldier.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:26 pmBush doesn’t want to find cures for diseases, and he offers no hope for sick people. Sounds like a great way to campaign.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:31 pmBush doesn’t want to find cures for diseases, and he offers no hope for sick people. Sounds like a great way to campaign.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:31 pmIf Bush vetoes this, it could be a political gift to the Dems.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:33 pmAnd, if a veto is signed, in two years, when Bush&co are history, one of the first things on a Democratic agenda will be to reverse this ignorant move.
The strategy seeks to insure that a small, motivated minority will go to the polls in sufficient numbers to carry some districts or states in which average voters may be apathetic. It also provides sectarian comfort to any christian fanatic who also has the wherewithall to tamper with voting equipment.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:35 pmWhich 37 Senators voted against?
July 18th, 2006 at 5:39 pmBush will veto this. It’ll be an election year gift to the religious right. It won’t change anything, but it’ll give the anti-abortion crowd the idea that the Republicans support them.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:40 pmWhen you kill an Iraqi you kill future stem cells.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:40 pmBush hasn’t vetoed any legislation…ever.
Does he even know where the big rubber “VETO” stamp is? He’s probably going to have to call Clinton to find out.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:41 pmYEAs —63
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Gregg (R-NH)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
McCain (R-AZ)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)
NAYs —37
July 18th, 2006 at 5:54 pmAllard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Coleman (R-MN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagel (R-NE)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Martinez (R-FL)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (
Voinovich is a rethug from Ohio.
July 18th, 2006 at 5:59 pmHere comes the VETO
Praise Jebus
July 18th, 2006 at 6:02 pmKyl and Ensign can send their souls home to Momma ’cause their collective ass belongs to the rattlesnakes!
July 18th, 2006 at 6:07 pmYippee! Chimpie gets his first opportunity to Veto a bill.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:18 pm# 24
Thanks for the information. I always thought than only the Nebraska football team and fans were morons (and one ex-K-mart manager).
July 18th, 2006 at 6:23 pmGreat – Ricky Sanitorium voted “Ney”. Guess Ricky doesn’t want to find a cure for diseases. It just keeps getting better for Bob Casey Jr. Everything that Ricky the Rooster does, sends one more voter to Casey.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:23 pmIt’s also pleasing to see that the Dems are voting as a block.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:24 pm#28 – oops… missed Nelson.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:26 pmYippee! Chimpie gets his first opportunity to Veto a bill.
Comment by Coffins draped with flags — July 18, 2006 @ 6:18 pm
hardly his first opportunity… but i get your gist…
July 18th, 2006 at 6:26 pmi want to see him try it too…
i’d bet there will be a few who wise up and override that veto…
but i don’t bet…
I love that he (Bush) wont “destroy life to save lives,” in regards to Stem Cells, but then we will kill innocent lives, and send our own troops to their deaths to spread “freedom” and “democracy” in the middle east.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:38 pmI asked this on a different thread but never got an answer…
Were the Bush twins the result of in vitro,or natural?
I thought I read somewhere that they were, making his stance on stem cells incredibly hypocritical.
Does anyone out there know?
July 18th, 2006 at 6:45 pmI too have been wondering and am unable to find a definitive answer.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:49 pmLet the bastard Bush veto. The Decider is becoming a bigger Divider, especially on this issue.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:51 pmI guess Bush having his girlfriend have an abortion is enough to disqualify him on this subject, but it bugs me that I can’t find out about the in vitro subject……
Thanks for the support, Marie.
July 18th, 2006 at 6:53 pmTrue: “Were the Bush twins the result of in vitro,or natural?” – - This is an article about Elizabeth Edwards and in vitro. The Bush twins are only mentioned in passing but if they were in vitro, I’m sure there would be loads of info on that http://www.slate.com/id/2108863/
July 18th, 2006 at 6:58 pmOk, I’ve spent quite a while looking for some kind of substantiation that President Bush at one time pressured his girlfriend to have an abortion. The only person I’ve found that makes this claim in pornographer Larry Flynt.
Is there any source, even slightly more credible than him?
July 18th, 2006 at 7:02 pmThanks, Badmoodman!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:05 pmChase: “…pornographer Larry Flynt.” Subjectivity aside, that’s publisher Larry Flynt.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:07 pmum…
no more Think Fast PM ?!?!?
did i miss the announcement?
July 18th, 2006 at 7:10 pmi just noticed that the regular AM’s don’t say “AM” since monday…
:-(
#39 – That may be true, but he’s also a pornographer. In fact, he’s primarily a pornographer.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:11 pmThose Nay Senators represent:
56% of the States (by number)
37% of the Senate
ONLY 33% of the total population of the United States. (Based on the 2000 census population by State. One Senator=one half the popuation; two Senators =all the population.)
Most are from the Bible Belt and the Redneck States.
Now you know where the polls are taken!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:15 pmI don’t know how the thread got to DUHbya’s fertility but I will offer up the suggestion that no omnipotent being whether God or an Intelligent Designer would be stupid enough to put reproductive organs on such a fool. My position can be proven empirically by the fact that Bush has been President for 5 1/2 years and has yet to demonstrate that he has a pair of balls.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:22 pmChase: “#39 – That may be true, but he’s (Flynt) also a pornographer. In fact, he’s primarily a pornographer.” – - One man’s floor is another man’s ceiling.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:23 pm#42 – “That’s the story at least.”
That’s so awesome. Good try.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:23 pmI heard that about Bush’s girlfriend too, though I don’t think I read it online. I’ll check a few books and see if that’s where I read it.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:25 pm#35 trueblue – The best I could find is that Laura Bush tried for several years to conceive and finally resorted to fertility treatments (drugs, hormones).
July 18th, 2006 at 7:27 pmhttp://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2006-04-18/brumback-laurabushbook
Geeze, do we really need a Swiftboating of Bush when there’s so much we know he’s done wrong?
July 18th, 2006 at 7:28 pmFrom the book about Laura Bush: “One of the most surprising things he learned about Laura Bush, Kessler (the author) said, was her love for Windex.” And she’s got an 80% approval rating. Just goes to show the American public loves an empty hairdo.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:33 pm#44 CtR
He sure liked to brag about “something” in his codpiece when he gave his mission accomplished speech. Socks? Or did he just hitch up his straps too tight? He who has so little, brags the most.
As for his former girlfriend, I have read several sources over the years that provided the information on his former girlfriend, who is remarkably wealthy now. She got some Bush money, but didn’t have to wed the Bush monkey.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:34 pmMaybe Laura has an obsession about germs and needs to feel she is shiny, squeeky clean and not get any Dubya cooties on, or….horrors…..heaven forbid, IN!!!!
July 18th, 2006 at 7:45 pmEEEEK!!!!!
#51 – I don’t know about the abortion story and I highly doubt the homosexuality story but it really doesn’t matter.
I would like to see some kind of credible corroberation for either.
Until then, just some low-down bullshit.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:46 pm“I would like to see some kind of credible corroberation for either.
Until then, just some low-down bullshit.
Comment by Chase”
How about his ex-boyfriend?
Or this:
People like you wouldn’t care if Bush were an Axe Murderer, as long as he fed your fears of terrorism and crazy liberals. You guys are sick freaks. You’re nothing but a bunch of repressed unstable idiots.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:53 pmdoubt the homosexual stories, please. yale, secret society, ring a bell. why do you think it is so secret? the stories are breaking about their hand-picked politicians that have ‘boy parties’ for blackmail. kay griggs,widow of a military officer, found his diaries and is speaking about this. and has been for long time. if i were pc savvy i would take it off my disc and get it to the computer, somehow there is a way and when i do you all will be the first to see it. her interview is extensive and in 3 parts. this is also a bribery tool for the military.
so all these senators are just pedaphiles with a long rap sheet of deviant sexual behavior for no reason. well now you know. btw, kissinger was the main recipient.
July 18th, 2006 at 7:58 pmBlue49: “If Hillary Clinton had gotten drunk and killed her boyfriend in an auto accident, I think the right wing would have been braying and honking about this until they were blue in the face.” – -
July 18th, 2006 at 7:58 pmYou’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That’s the signpost up ahead – your next stop, Chappaquidick!
shoooot, noone had to say anything about the possibility of gorgyporgy being gay. just look, and watch.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:00 pmDubya is such a witless wonder and total doofus straight (?) can anyone imagine what he would have been like as a rich kid party-boy in his 20’s on a college campus? He would have been the type that would drink, or do, anything on a dare….. just to get some attention from ANYONE!
July 18th, 2006 at 8:00 pmi have girlfriends that grew up during gorgy porgy in texas and would talk about how he was a f student. big drunk and looooooved the yola.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:05 pmExcuse: (I’m a reclusive upper midwesterner)
July 18th, 2006 at 8:12 pmWhats ‘yola’ ?
Will George Bush veto or not veto? That is the question.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:26 pmAnd Nelson, the Nebraska DINO, votes with the repugs.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:40 pmZell Miller could start a party of malcontents, like himself, Lieberman, Nelson and see what mischief they can accomplish.
If you have no affinity for your party, then change parties and become an independent but quit stringing people along.
#53 Marie
Thanks for the response, I was beginning to think you didn’t love me anymore.
Actually that was a new experimental teleprompter. Turd Blossom figured that since he had his head so far up his backside he could read it with the contact lens in his navel.
Keep on keepin’ on. We will get them yet and soon!
July 18th, 2006 at 8:43 pmRyan:
EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!
Marie, Thanks for the link.
Sorry I’ve been so sporadic, but it’s damned hot in this room, so I keep retreating to the livingroom!
July 18th, 2006 at 8:43 pmHe may well make a big show of a veto. At this point of his precipitous freefall into history as the biggest mistake for a leader America has ever allowed, he may grasp at any straw to keep himself from splatting at the bottom of his own well of failure and inadequacy.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:45 pm#65
coke
July 18th, 2006 at 8:45 pmhow do you guys get this page to stop disappearing? it’s only partial.
July 18th, 2006 at 8:47 pmYa, sure you betcha, eh!
July 18th, 2006 at 9:05 pmTanks, kinda like yokel yola, ya??????
A veto would be nothing more than preaching to the choir. It will not gain anything for the Bushco nor the Republican Party. The only thing it will accomplish will be to aid and abet his assinine value of self-worth. Any reasonable man would have surrendered long ago but of course of all the things attributed to DUHbya reasonableness has never appeared on the list. The OPEC (oil, pharmecudical, energy and corporatiateprofit) powers behind the throne will keep the dupe there as long as they can bribe congress not to impeach. However, there may be light at the end of the tunnel as as some one once said: “Paybacks can be hell.”
July 18th, 2006 at 9:14 pmi just noticed that the regular AM’s don’t say “AM†since monday…
:-(
Comment by katy
OH NO!! TP, we must have our evening open thread. If you’re too tired at the end of the day to do ThinkFast PM, maybe just label a thing Open Thread and let us use it to vent. Please consider it!
July 18th, 2006 at 9:29 pmYES! YES!
WHAT ZOOEY SAID!
PLEASE!
oh…please?
July 18th, 2006 at 9:45 pmOnward, march, O ye blastocyst-Americans! After you are on ice for 18 years, you get to vote. Tough to hit the ‘Accept’ button with only a few cells to work with, none of which resembles a finger.
July 18th, 2006 at 10:08 pmEmbryonic stem cell research has not only yet to cure a
single human patient, but it has never been tried on humans
because of failures in animal testing. On the other hand, adult
stem cells have already produced 70 cures or treatments for
various conditions including various cancers such as breast
cancer, lymphomas, leukemia, arthritis, heart damage, Parkinsons,
Sickle Cell Anemia and other disorders.
Leading researchers say stem cell research will not likely
yield cures for Alzheimer’s. “Alzheimer’s is a more global
disease, with an effect on numerous kinds of cells,” Steve Stice,
a stem cell researcher at the University of Georgia, told the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper. “That makes it much more
difficult for a cell therapy to be effective.” Marilyn Albert, a
Johns Hopkins University researcher, adds, “I just think
everybody feels there are higher priorities for seeking effective
treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and for identifying preventive
strategies.”
The most recent poll on the subject, conducted by
International Communications Research in mid-May, finds 48% of
Americans oppose federal funding of stem cell research that
requires destroying human embryos. Just 39% support such funding
and another 12 percent had no position. The ICR survey found 57%
favored funding only the research avenues that do not harm the
donor. Just 24% favored funding all stem cell research, including
the type that involves destroying human embryos.
For more information on stem cell research, see http://www.lifenews.com.
July 18th, 2006 at 10:36 pmemail message from harry reid:
I just walked off the Senate floor, where a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to pass the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, offering hope to millions of Americans. I wish we could celebrate – however, George Bush has indicated he might make this bill the first veto of his Presidency.
After signing numerous bills giving tax breaks to millionaires and giveaways to his friends at oil companies, it is unbelievable that George Bush’s first veto might come on a bill that could save millions of lives. I need your help letting George Bush know this is unacceptable — he must sign the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act. We need to act in the next 24 – 48 hours — every moment is critical.
Tell George Bush to sign the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, by visiting:
http://www.giveemhellharry.com/page/petition/stemcells
July 18th, 2006 at 10:51 pmpass it on!
Petitioning Bush is a Waste of time and energy. Did he listen to anybody, about anything, ever?
His version of being in touch with the people is sitting on their heads.
Forget it. We’re doomed to a four year delay in any national progressive program … unless in November we get enough seats in Congress to throw off the yoke of his lazy simplistic extremism.
July 18th, 2006 at 11:22 pmSo let’s see…all males who DO NOT produce babys with their millions of sperm are murderers…..WTF????????
July 18th, 2006 at 11:45 pmunless in November we get enough seats in Congress…
Comment by Solitaire — July 18, 2006 @ 11:22 pm
once again -
OVERWHELMING DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT.
THEY CANT STEAL IT IF IT’S NOT CLOSE.
pass it on!
July 19th, 2006 at 12:09 amvoted against it:
Nay : 37 Members
July 19th, 2006 at 2:40 amJeff Sessions (R-AL)
Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Charles Grassley (R-IA)
Larry Craig (R-ID)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
David Vitter (R-LA)
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Jim Talent (R-MO)
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
Chuck Hagel (R-NE)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
John Sununu (R-NH)
Pete Domenici (R-NM)
John Ensign (R-NV)
Mike DeWine (R-OH)
George Voinovich (R-OH)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
John Thune (R-SD)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
George Allen (R-VA)
Michael Enzi (R-WY)
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
I wonder how many of those who voted ‘no’ are getting campaign contributions from ‘Big Pharma’?
July 19th, 2006 at 3:40 amLet me understand. There are still people who simultaneously believe that it’s morally acceptable to torture real, live human beings to maybe get information to save a life but see it as immoral to do stem cell research with human cells to get information that probably will save lives. I hope this vote helps my own DeWine (R-Ohio) get his pink slip this November.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:44 amSteve, #78
July 19th, 2006 at 9:19 amThere was an early thread debunking most of the claims for Adult Stem Cell treatments. There are only 9 FDA approved treatments and many did not CURE their disease but allievated the side affects.
Look at this
http://thinkprogress.org/ 2006/ 07/ 15/ distorting-stem-cell-research/ trackback/
Katy, thanks for the link to Harry’s petition. Signed it and also and sent the website onto everyone on my email list.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:52 am[...] Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks ‘Are You Going To Kill Me?’ Senate Passes Bill Expanding Stem Cell Research [...]
July 20th, 2006 at 9:34 amJessie
Nice article, thanks ;)
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