Holsinger confirmation hearing set for July 12.
Holsinger confirmation hearing set for July 12.
The Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee announced that the confirmation hearing for Surgeon General nominee James Holsinger, who has repeatedly pushed homophobic, scientifically inaccurate statements, has been set for July 12. This month, Holsinger has “quietly been making courtesy calls” to senators.
Read the press release:
SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ANNOUNCES HOLSINGER NOMINATION HEARING (Press Release)
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, announced that the nomination hearing for Surgeon General nominee Dr. James Holsinger, Jr. will be held on Thursday, July 12th at 10:00am.
WHO: Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
WHAT: Nomination hearing for Surgeon General
WHERE: Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 628
WHEN: 10:00am, Thursday, July 12, 2007
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Of course they’ll confirm him. When have they not given the King what he wants?
June 29th, 2007 at 3:29 pmscientifically inaccurate
Since when did science matter to neo-con-Christians?
He sounds like another Haggard or Foley.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:29 pmlet the grilling begin… I wouldn’t say confirmation is a given now that Dems are running the committees…
June 29th, 2007 at 3:36 pmHe’s incompetent: The perfect Bushco nominee.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pmWho’s really sicko?
In Canada, dogs get hip replacements faster than people.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/ editorial/ feature.html?id=110010266
TORONTO–”I haven’t seen ‘Sicko,’ ” says Avril Allen about the new Michael Moore documentary, which advocates socialized medicine for the United States. The film, which has been widely viewed on the Internet, and which will officially open in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, has been getting rave reviews. But Ms. Allen, a lawyer, has no plans to watch it. She’s just too busy preparing to file suit against Ontario’s provincial government about its health-care system next month.
Her client, Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI, and then months more to see a neurologist for his malignant brain tumor. Instead, frustrated and ill, the retired auto-body shop owner traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., for a lifesaving surgery. Now he’s suing for the right to opt out of Canada’s government-run health care, which he considers dangerous.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:44 pmWhere is Daryll? He normally is the troll on threads about Gays and Holsinger. m12 > you are supposed to be on the Pace thread above. Rove said you ignored the memo today.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:47 pmDems should block all Bush appointments. Better yet, they should block them and refuse to give their reasoning behind the decision.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pmI wonder if the good Dr. will rub Crisco all over his body when he gets confirmed, like Ashcroft.
Or maybe just the parts that need it the most?
Jebus B4 Facts.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pmBringing out the right wing links again, m?
Forget it, one right wing mouthpiece isn’t going to tell the millions who don’t have insurance or whose insurance sucks ass that it’s that bad.
I have friends in Canada, so you can post links to mouthpieces anytime you’d like. I *know* from reliable sources that you’re full of it.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:50 pmHouse Res 333 to Impeach Cheney has gone through Subcommittee
to the FULL JUDICIARY.
http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=2382
Call all of your reps and say you are in support of
impeaching Cheney. I called every one of my reps in IL today
to say I was supporting his impeachment.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ (just click on your state)
Call all your representatives!
Today and every day until the rule of law is returned to this
June 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pmcountry!
Holsinger is as qualified to be Surgeon General as Harriet Meirs , Roberts , and Assholito are to be Supreme Court judges…….
June 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pmOf course, the WSJ would never advocate for an end to corporate welfare.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:53 pmm12 > if the guy had money to pay for an operation, then he could have had it done months ago anyways. In the US money talks > go slap some Gs in front of a doctor in the US and you get what you paid for pronto.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:53 pmJay, wait until Murdoch owns the WSJ!
So much for any REAL business or financial news any longer.
That’s when I take my stocks overseas.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:58 pmThe U.S. Healthcare system: Providing American citizens with the 37th best healthcare system in the world; but we’re #1 cost.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:58 pmHer client, Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI,
Jeez, she’s lucky. Here in the good ole USA, I waited 15 months for my MRI, and even then it was a half ass job.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:59 pm# 15
Ah, my Idiotic friend (snicker…sorry, couldn’t resist), facts are meaningless, prejudice or preconceptions are all that matters.
Fear lives on and continues to drive our country.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pmm12,
My ex-wife was from Canada, and yes Canada has problems, just like any other nation, but they don’t have 30 Million Canadians w/o insurance.
Go ahead keep spewing the fact that a few people in Canada aren’t happy with their system. The fact is most are. And this goes for any country who has national health care.
I don’t know why you idiots can’t think for yourselves. If we took the “insurance company profit” out of the picture, we could insure all for probably less than we pay now through our employer provided insurance. Doctors could still make good livings. All we’re doing is taking the “middle man” profit out.
Those who need minor care could get it, before it turns into something major. (which we pay for because the dr/hospital took a loss).
The only ones telling you National Healthcare is bad, is the insurance and drug companies.
And the cigarette companies told us for years that smoking does not cause health problems.. remember? Can’t you think for yourself?
June 29th, 2007 at 4:00 pmJeez, she’s lucky. Here in the good ole USA, I waited 15 months for my MRI, and even then it was a half ass job.
Comment by mayfair — June 29, 2007 @ 3:59 pm
Hell, You’re lucky. My health care completely refused mine until my Dad refinanced his house just to pay for one. And it did find just what it the Doctor suspected. Currently, we have a lawsuit against the HMO.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:02 pmHey! Ignore these comments. We don’t want socialized medicine! You will grow warts if you vote for it. The cigarette companies are right, smoking poses NO threats and yet we are the victims of all these lawsuits. Please help us!
June 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pmUniversal Healthcare is for everyone who cannot afford to pay for expensive operations. Those who can afford to pay can opt out of the system and contract a doctor to do their surgery. The wealthy would continue to see their expensive physicians.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:08 pmHer client, Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI
Wow. 4 months! Me and my buds had to go to Cuba to get our health care. Thanks again Michael Moore!
June 29th, 2007 at 4:08 pmWhy are you people willing to let He’s12 derail the thread by responding to its OT cut-and-paste posts?
As far as I could tell, the topic of the thread was the homophobic, anti-science nominee that Bush has presented for Surgeon General.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:15 pmWe are the only developed nation without national health care. Its coming, don’t resist. Greed is the biggest barrier yet to overcome.
The best argument the trolls have is that the government won’t be able to do a good job at it, just look at Walter Reed.
The difference is, Walter Reed is in a closed system, a subculture of people who have to follow orders and have no power, the military.
That would not happen in the general populace, way different culture than the military.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:16 pmWASHINGTON - A particularly serious form of the sexually transmitted bacterial disease syphilis has been detected in gay and bisexual U.S. men infected with the AIDS virus, federal health officials reported on Thursday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked 49 HIV-infected gay and bisexual men who had “symptomatic early neurosyphilis†from January 2002 to June 2004 in four cities — Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, New York.
The CDC cited the report as further evidence that gay and bisexual men, many also infected with HIV, are the driving force behind increases in U.S. syphilis cases this decade.
The findings also indicate that these men are engaging in the same risky, unprotected sex that can spread the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes AIDS.
“These are primarily infections that people are probably getting because they’re not using condoms,†said Dr. Thomas Peterman of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention, an author of the report.
In some instances, the men involved have the attitude that they do not need safe-sex practices because they already are infected with HIV, Peterman said.
The most at-risk people for AIDS are gays and drug abusers.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:19 pmAIDS was invented to get rid of gays and drug addicts.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:27 pmBack to Holsinger > if the Democrat Senators had spines, then he would NOT be confirmed, but about half the Dems in the Senate are jellyfish, so they will vote for him. For example Feinstein will say she is troubled about the nomination, but then will vote for him. Levin will talk big, but then vote for him. Biden will blabber about it and then vote for him. LIEberman will definately vote for him.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:27 pmI got my AIDS from an African monkey.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:34 pmThis guy will fit right in with the rest of the monkey turds on Dubya’s staff; Gonzo, Pace, Pat Robertson/James Dobsen, Tommy DeLay (Honarary), SecofShoes Rice and SecofCookies Doan.
They all are so underqualified, and/or so far up Rover and Darth’s ass, they haven’t seen daylight since 1999.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:02 pmI don’t agree with this appointment, however, WTF impact does the surgeon general really have on our day to day lives? We see an infrequent message on the TV from the Surgeon General. We see that he leaves notes on cigarette packaging for us.
What else does he/she really do?
June 29th, 2007 at 5:17 pmIf I was picking battles, this would not be one of them. Keep your eye on the impeachment ball.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:18 pmThe Demoncrats have ADHD. That is why this gruop cannot get anything done. They are all over the place, kinda like TP :D
June 29th, 2007 at 5:33 pmYes impeachment ball forget about election ball goood thinking ForTruth:}
June 29th, 2007 at 6:10 pmForTruth, the surgeon general helps set policies and makes decisions about healthcare related topics. I would think he would also have input as to the kinds of things that are taught relating to health.
Can you imagine? Post 25 is a perfect example of the kinds of dribble that you could expect from this troglodyte as our surgeon general. Sounds as if the head of the CDC (if that is even a real post) has already been politicized, as has every other agency that is supposed to protect us (you know, FDA, EPA, all those who are in the pocket of this pathetic administration).
It is no less important. And I called about not confirming this bozo.
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ (just click on your state)
Call all your representatives!
June 29th, 2007 at 7:04 pmThe Surgeon General serves to pleasure the President.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:32 pmGood one Zooey…or vice versa…
June 29th, 2007 at 10:34 pmLet’s see Holsinger explain himself before Kennedy and the rest of the committee.
June 30th, 2007 at 1:33 pmAnd to MsJoanne —
Statement 25 is the TRUTH, but brain dead imbiciles like yourself seem to really think that Bush is singularly responsible for the disease AIDS and therefore anything said about how gay men are spreading it faster than ANY OTHER segement of the population must be a Right Wing conspiracy.
You just keep thinking that, as you do nothing more then prove beyond any shread of doubt that the liberal left’s collective stupidity is surpassed only by their intellectual dishonesty.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:02 pm