Bush and Merkel, united against stem cell research.
By on Jul 21st, 2006 at 10:12 am
Bush and Merkel, united against stem cell research.
Germany’s conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel may not have appreciated President Bush’s awkward “massage” last week, but she does agree with his stance on stem cells. Germany yesterday “pressed its EU partners to ban European funding for embryonic stem-cell research, a day after President George W. Bush vetoed a bill that would have expanded such work in the United States.”
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Angela seems to be getting cozier everyday with the Bush administration. Has anyone noticed?
July 21st, 2006 at 10:14 amShould that read “massage” instead of “message”?
July 21st, 2006 at 10:15 amIt appears with Blair in trouble in Britian, George just went out and got himself a new poodle named Angela.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:19 amI’m not going to go down any moral or ethical road right now. Consider what disadvantage it is to lag behind the countries that do actively pursue this.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:22 amWhat a turn of events that Germany, which has contributed to some of the world’s most revolutionary scientific and intellectual developments, would join hands with the anti-progress Bush administration and discourage the research of a major biomedical research effort. What’s next, are they going to bail on Kyoto and deny the existence of global warming?
July 21st, 2006 at 10:22 amI knew that there would be trouble the day that Ms. Merkel was officially designated chancellor.
Merkel is just trying to avoid resurrecting the stench of Josef Mengele.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:23 amBeware the hand of Bush. Anyone whom Bush touches suddenly drops 80-100 IQ points. He saps their intelligence from them like a brain leech. That’s why she looked so shocked when he “massaged” her. I’ve heard brain sapping can be a painful experience. Maybe some trolls here can tell us about their own experiences.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:28 amBeware the hand of Bush. Anyone whom Bush touches…
Comment by dlet — July 21, 2006 @ 10:28 am
that reminds me of a recent “Pap Attack” – President Jinx…
July 21st, 2006 at 10:33 ammike rants about bush’s “bad luck plague” and how he is
considered “SNAKE BIT”… a good listen
I expect a medical brain drain to other countries that have the will to help people with neurological disorders. There is nothing that can be told to an idealogue doesn’t even listen or understand that the embryos are being thrown away.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:34 amI think Merkel liked that grope for some odd reason….
Oh wait, she’s a right wing fascist as well
July 21st, 2006 at 10:37 amno, really – it’s the first time i’ve listened to that since the original show…
July 21st, 2006 at 10:41 amREALLY – LISTEN TO THAT “PAP ATTACK” … wow…
Jon Stewart last night did an excellent job of positioning Bush’s moral grandstanding that stem cell research is federally funded murder against his flippant, unemotional response a few months back that 30,000 or so Iraqi civilians had been killed thus far in his War Against Iraq.
Seems some lives are more precious than others.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:43 am#8
July 21st, 2006 at 10:43 amI’ll definately give it a listen to when I get home. Just sent myself an reminder e-mail.
Merkel is an eastern CDU german but I doubt this has much to do with morality/religion as they don’t really excite ‘the base’.
Note that she is asking the EU not to fund it. The EU disburses massive amounts of aid, 50 percent happens to be spent on an obscene farmy subsidy progam called CAP, and she’s probably worried about them spending money on stemp cells in Eastern Europe. Seriously.
She is botching everything she touches so she’s at least got that in common with King George. She completely messed up the health care ‘reform’ which is nothing of the sort and makes little sense. I guess their ‘difference’ is that Merkel wants to lower the budget deficit through TAXES. She’s raising VAT from 16 to 19 percent. That could be bad since Germany has an export based economy, ie, domestic spending is weak at the moment.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:46 amHmm… Suddenly those rumors about Bush and Laura’s marriage being on the rocks seem more credible. Maybe he and Merkel shared more than a massage at the G8 meeting?
July 21st, 2006 at 10:46 amI looked for some data on how the German population feels about this issue but couldn’t find any. Anyone know a good link?
July 21st, 2006 at 10:47 amMaybe Bush actually gave her the Vulcan Mind Meld, disguised as a shoulder massage.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:47 amI would also note that it matters how she is presenting this. There are several different ways to take this up at the Commission level but it’s either a vote where every state has a veto, a majority, or a supermajority. I’m guessing it will be a majority issue here and her proposal will fail miserably. She’ll get the support of Poland and that’s it. Italy went center-left after they outsted Berlusconi.
The states listed as having ‘reservations’ don’t in reality. The poor ones (Slovakia etc) are only interested because any EU funding takes away from their regional funding. Austria will never support it in the end. There is zero possibility of them being able to get a majority when only 6 or so register ‘reservations’ out of a total of 25 countries.
Interestingly they do not include Greece or Cyprus among those countries.
Merkel is in a ‘Grand Alliance’ so she might have to do this to appease some of the CDU membership but it will backfire. Coddling up to Bush is not that popular.
Anyone know if the German media has picked up the Bush groping video?
July 21st, 2006 at 10:50 amReply to katy:
katy, I did listen to the ‘Pap Attack’, and I have to raise serious objections.
Mike makes the case that all the horrible things that have happened to this country since Bush was sworn in are due to his incredible bad luck (as they say in the South, ’snake-bit’). Basically, he’s saying that everything that has gone wrong is merely the biggest stream of coincidences ever.
Myself, I don’t subscribe to the ‘coincidence theory’, especially when it comes to the events surrounding 9/11. Chalking up all 9/11 related events as mere ‘coincidence’ blinds us to the awful reality of the situation.
While the idea of the ’snake-bit president’ is mildly entertaining, it is also comforting…most people would rather believe their leaders are merely unlucky, rather than overtly malicious. The facts of the case, however, are blindingly obvious to anyone who does even a cursory amount of research.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:51 ambush apparently has ‘magical fingers’…the merkel rub and reaction may have been orgasmic for the big ol’ girl! what we took as a move of disgust when satan touched her shoulders, may have been an orgasmic startle to the great german leader?
July 21st, 2006 at 11:04 amI’m starting to get really bored and irritated with those fake interviews that Stewart and Colbert put on nightly. They both need more imagination and stop repeating the same garbage nightly.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:10 amAnd who are the baffons who post here and feel the need to give us a blow by blow account of what Stewart and Colbert say?
Yawn: “I’m starting to get really bored and irritated with those fake interviews that Stewart and Colbert put on nightly.” – - Stewart’s interviews aren’t fake, Colbert’s are. The Daily Show finally jumped the shark when Colbert left and it’s been mostly tedious since.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:21 amYawn
Well, why dont you start your own show and lets see if it can be as thought provoking, and as informative, to a young audience that doesn’t give a sh*t about politics.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:22 amI wish TDS would hold a fake interview with Ted Stevens about Net Nutrality
July 21st, 2006 at 11:24 am# 24.I don’t.
July 21st, 2006 at 11:46 amWhat would it accomplish? Just another cheap attempt to make someone look stupid.
They(S.& C.show)do this over and over and over again.Once or twice was humorous,now it’s become tedious and immature.
And who are the baffons posting here who give play by play of what S.& C. are doing?
Comment by TripMaster Monkey — July 21, 2006 @ 10:51 am
well, trip., from that perspective, i’d have to say, yep, you are correct…
i don’t like thinking that it was all a strinng of bad luck either … well, i’d RATHER think it was, but have come to the conclusion that these people are truly evil, none of it is coincidence, it is planned chaos…
but the rant was good at spelling out all the things that have gone wrong with dubya and i thought it was just a good rant… however, i don’t think mike was making excuses at all – he know and says that these are evil people…
July 21st, 2006 at 12:09 pmyes, i agree completely with YAWN.
if you want real interviews, please watch my show. highlights are my interviews with that bat-shit crazy katherine harris, and, of course, my main squeeze, ms ann coulter.
more YAWN less spin.
yours,
sean
July 21st, 2006 at 12:09 pmAngela seems to be getting cozier everyday with the Bush administration. Has anyone noticed?
Comment by J_ny — July 21, 2006 @ 10:14 am
I have noticed, and frankly I’m horrified. What is she thinking? Perhaps that be supporting him in these controversial subjects, he’ll reciprocate and push some economic activity Germanys way? Maybe. My impression of him though is that he is simply not capable of gratitude, it just doesn’t cross his mind to act that way. I hope she has some guarantees …. the business supporting Israel and now this, are very worrying trends.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:17 pm# 27.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:17 pmStop trying to make me out to be a right winger:I’m not.
And who are the baffons who post here and feel the need to give us a blow by blow account of what Stewart and Colbert say?
Comment by yawn — July 21, 2006 @ 11:10 am
From one “baffon” to another, I consistently find them hilarious.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:30 pmGood luck with that Merkel … you barely were even allowed to serve in the position you are in…. not exactly an MANDATE….
July 21st, 2006 at 12:31 pmof course you aren’t YAWN… i, too, am ‘fair and balanced’. whatever gave you the idea i was in any way labeling you???
i agree with you that political satire is just a waste of time and it just so happens that the terrorist left thinks it somehow funny to replay interviews with, say, ted stevens, about the internets and the tubes. i, as you, find it childish. you won’t see that on fox, i guarantee that!
keep watching.
yours,
sean
July 21st, 2006 at 12:31 pmBush and Merkel need to go get a room, instead of displaying their love affair on the Internet blogs, with a vulgar neck rub in front of everybody at G8 meeting > lol.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:55 pmMerkel should have filed sexual harrassment charges against the hayseed Bush and had him arrested
July 21st, 2006 at 1:07 pmPost 34 jason > Merkel must have liked the neck rub after all > Bush must be the first guy in a long time to lust after her > lol.
July 21st, 2006 at 1:21 pmI think he slipped her a Mickey! Roll the tape again in slow motion!
July 21st, 2006 at 6:41 pmMerkel is almost is right wing as Bush, this is no surprise. Yeah, it is true that if Clinton had pulled the massage thing she would have been giving him a lap-dance in a heartbeat, she is a woman, after all but she is definitely aligned with Bush, politically.
July 21st, 2006 at 10:08 pmIf Strom Thurmond had given her that ‘massage’ I think she would have taken the longest, hottest shower she ever had. It’s still good enough reason after ‘Leader’ does it.
July 23rd, 2006 at 11:07 am