REPORT: Public Strongly At Odds With Bush’s Position on Stem Cells
REPORT: Public Strongly At Odds With Bush’s Position on Stem Cells
Last year, Congress passed legislation with broad bipartisan support to expand funding for embryonic stem cell research beyond the 2001 limits set by President Bush. In response, Bush issued the first veto of his presidency. When Congress returns from recess, it will again revive debate on funding for new embryonic stem cell research. Bush has already vowed another veto.
Even Bush’s own scientists disagree with his position on stem cell research. Last month, Dr. Elias Zerhouni, Bush’s appointee as director of the National Institutes of Health, said that “American science will be better served — and the nation will be better served — if we let our scientists have access to more cell lines that they can study with the different methods that have emerged since 2001.”
Furthermore, polling done this year shows that the Bush is at odds with the public, as “now a solid and consistent majority says that it wants to move forward with research”:
“It’s interesting to note that even Republicans in the CBS News poll said they approve of embryonic stem cell research by 54-36. On the stem cell research issue, Bush isn’t even representing his own partisans, much less the rest of the public,” states American Progress fellow Ruy Teixeira.
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Since W has early onset dementia, I would think he would be in full support of such research.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:27 amIt doesn’t matter, King George W. The Turd and his rump 29% know what is right. They are the chosen ones and no one can question them because they are doing God’s work.
Welcome to American Chimpocracy led by the dim one and his close lackeys.
-GSD
March 31st, 2007 at 10:27 amThe Neocons have no problems killing an adult human via the Death Penalty, experimenting on our genetic cousins the chimpanzees, shooting an animal that wanders into their backyard via the aroma of their uneaten chicken or cow dinner sitting in trash cans, or beating the living hell out of their children for mildly disobeying them – BUT they will bomb abortion clinics to “stop the killling”, and they will protest stem cell research on something (a blastocyst) that’s all of 4 cells and has no consciousness preventing saving the life of conscious, breathing humans.
And then they wonder why we think they are insane hypocrites…
They aren’t Pro-Life – they are Pro-Human Cellular-Life.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:32 amWere at odds with everything Bush does, but nobody in the Congress has the balls to tell Dubya to resign.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:32 amIf there were any god of any shape, there wouldn’t be diseases to begin with… So, Georgie, get out of the way of Stem Cell Research and let humans who use their brains for thinking do something beneficial for the greater majority – as the people want.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:34 amSo. It is proven over and over again that 28-32% of America is incredibly HOPELESS.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:35 amGeorge would fall into the “don’t know” category. He’s just doing what Turdblossom tells him he needs to do to suck up to the Religious Right.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:37 amyou cant reason with an idiot
March 31st, 2007 at 10:37 amKing George is our moral Ayatollah. All heil King George!
March 31st, 2007 at 10:44 amStem Cells for the people, Faith Healing for the Troglodytes!!!!!
March 31st, 2007 at 10:44 amAmericans forget that george is the “decider.” He’s decided this issue so it is no long open for discussion. George’s administration is evidence that he will not ever admit a mistake or bow to public opinion on any issue.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:47 amReagan didn’t believe that AIDS was a crisis, but he has alzheimers and Nancy is on the charge for stem cell research.
Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly. No Republican President will ever back stem cell research until somebody in their family needs a related treatment.
Many elderly Republican voters are concerned only with their tax dollars and not about the future of the country and the deficits their tax cuts create. Aging baby boomers ought to get their faces out of their wallets and realize that this research addresses many quality of life issues in addition to preventing death.
March 31st, 2007 at 10:49 amNotice the absence of trolls? The trolls must still be watching the Saturday morning cartoons and eating Captain Crunch in their jammies with the slippers attached.
-GSD
March 31st, 2007 at 10:57 amShane said: Obviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly.
True, true. We heard the Republican right slamming and smearing Latino’s for a year up until the election. Now Seedy Gonzales is in hotwater and that bloated, childless, thrice divorced pusball junkie Limbaugh is saying that Gonzales is under attack because he’s Latino.
No shame.
-GSD
March 31st, 2007 at 10:59 amObviously neocons can only show concern if something touches them directly. No Republican President will ever back stem cell research until somebody in their family needs a related treatment.
Comment by shane — March 31, 2007 @ 10:49 am
Living in non-Atlanta Georgia, I can tell you that it is true and doesn’t stop at illness. They have ZERO empathy for anyone about anything they’ve never experienced. It’s how they can tell homeless people “Get a job” without batting an eyelash, or think there way is the only way and they not only have some right to force it on everyone else, butto actually get offended when the person they are victimizing or oppressing gets upset about it… Disgusting.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:13 amGSD > the Bush lover trolls are still all passed out drunk. Remember last night was Friday and drinking booze is how they are able to post crap on TP. Being intoxicated enables them to defend the Bush Regime stupidity.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:17 amIf neocons cared about anybody but themselves Hurricane Katrina would have been enough to turn them against Bush.
They don’t even really care about the people who died on 9/11. They’re only afraid something like it might happen in their areas. That’s why they’re so willing to send all the brave soldiers, unprepared, into harms way. Because they believe the crap Republicans have fed them about Muslims walking the street of Utah if we don’t engage them in Iraq.
Anybody who can see what has happened to Michael J. Fox, before and after is documented, and not see how important this research is will never act out of empathy.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:24 amAging baby boomers ought to get their faces out of their wallets and realize that this research addresses many quality of life issues in addition to preventing death.
Comment by shane — March 31, 2007 @ 10:49 am
This has nothing to do with baby boomers. If you noticed, most people want stem cell research. Especially the boomers. It is evangelicals who dont want it and they come in all ages.
Bush does not represent the baby boomers. Many of your boomers are in California and we passed stem cell legislation. It’s time the rest of the world joins us.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:37 amComment by bennett — March 31, 2007 @ 11:37 am
I was referring to those 30%, true believers. And the people who will vote for the next Republican candidate who will then cater to that Evangelical “base”. This is an issue that potentially helps all of us and the religious right stands to obstruct the research needed.
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March 31st, 2007 at 12:15 pmI know that this administration could care less what “the people” have to say about anything… but still…
If you walked into a burning laboratory and had only enough time to save either a petrie dish full of leftover embryos from an in vitro fertilization — or a person in a wheelchair — which would you save?
No doubt we’ll have to wait until 2009 for this. But there WILL be federal funding for ESCR, and there WILL be amazing cures to be found.
For many of us suffering from Parkinson’s (diagnosed in 2000), it might be too late. At the very least, it will be eight wasted years.
Bush and company, when they stand in front of whatever judgement awaits in the afterlife, will have to answer for THIS… along with all their other crimes against morality.
March 31st, 2007 at 12:20 pmBush and company, when they stand in front of whatever judgement awaits in the afterlife, will have to answer for THIS… along with all their other crimes against morality.
Comment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Sorry to hear about your condition. I think what the Bush Regime is doing to denyyou relief is criminal.
However, I do think that this sort of passive attitude is what has gotten Christianity, and other believers of after-lifes, into trouble – thinking that these people will be dealt with in some unproven afterlife – rather than deal with them NOW in this provable life… I have a good friend who stands up for nothing because he leaves it up to some unprovable diety to impart justice. And when people take -advantage of him, as they frequently do, he does nothing to stop them, so that there is no justice and probably further similar acts towards others.
What would the world be like if everyone thought and acted that way on all issues? I don’t want to find out…
March 31st, 2007 at 12:33 pmGSD:
I’m here. I think I’ve made my views clear though. You have a question for me?
March 31st, 2007 at 12:49 pmJake,
Does KKKarl pay you overtime when you are working on Saturdays? Or like a good fascist republican you don’t believe that you have the right as a worker?
March 31st, 2007 at 1:14 pmI’m here. I think I’ve made my views clear though. You have a question for me? Comment by Jake — March 31, 2007 @ 12:49 pm
Your views are really clear? We could sum them up with Heil Bush. Right Nazi boy?
March 31st, 2007 at 2:15 pmCHIMPya IS A CRIMINALLY STUBBORN, WILLFUL, NARCISSISTIC, PERVERTED, SOCIOPATHIC PSYCHOPATHIC NAZI-FASCIST SCUM—-THAT IS WHY HE IS SO CONTRARY TO COMMON SENSE, LOGIC OR REASON, BECAUSE THESE POSITIVES AND ESPECIALLY STEM-CELL RESEARCH, ARE ANATHEMA TO HIS NEGATIVE MINDSET AND WORLDVIEW—-CHIMPya IS INDEED A MAD-SAD F*CK WHO SHOULD IMMEDIATELY BE ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON AND GUILLOTINED(DON’T FORGET FRANKENCheney and the REST of Bushland Uber Allies) FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!!!
March 31st, 2007 at 3:16 pmThis is the collateral damage that’s not ok, evidently.
Why is a life not quite yet viable more important (at least worth screaming about more) than one already stable and independent?
Why are innocent dead Iraqis or Americans or whoever ok as collateral damage but not cells of embri?
It seems to me to be hypocritical to call yourself ‘pro-life’ but you want to decide what life is more important.
March 31st, 2007 at 3:19 pmComment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Smart post!!! Right on point!!!!!!
March 31st, 2007 at 5:53 pmComment by The Parkinson’s Pundit — March 31, 2007 @ 12:20 pm
Why do Repuginiscums hate the less than Nazi, Aryan perfect people??
March 31st, 2007 at 6:04 pmbig Pharma doesnt wan’t anything “cured” (no money in cures), so they don’t want the research done.. dovetails nicely with the biblehumpers amazingly selective concern for human life. they keep up the “its never right to take innocent life under any circumstances”mantra, but anyone who truly and consistently followed that logic would never advocate war.
its a talking point and a cheap rationalization of thier moral vapiditidy, nothing more. most religious nuts are control freaks, much like most business sharks.. it only makes sense that they would swim in the same tank..
March 31st, 2007 at 8:49 pmFix the title of this entry. You people love to leave out the word “embryonic” when saying “embryonic stem cell research”.
But twisting words is the hallmark of liberalism. If you can’t fight with facts either twist the truth or make it up.
ROTFL
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 pm