Cantor Calls Embryonic Stem Cell Reversals A “Distraction”
Posted on March 9, 2009
Yesterday, Dan Riehl wrote that Republicans should get off their duffs and stop playing defense
If (Republicans) had the intelligence and discipline to side-step things like the Limbaugh attack they might have a prayer. Instead of engaging it, they should come back with, This is simply the Democrats trying to prevent a discussion of how much their programs will cost, how much taxes are going to go up, and why you don’t re-build health care, energy and fundamental economic policy during a financial crisis.
He got his wish
A top congressional Republican on Sunday criticized President Barack Obama’s expected decision to reverse the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem-cell research, calling it a distraction from the country’s economic slump.
“Why are we going and distracting ourselves from the economy? This is job No. 1. Let’s focus on what needs to be done,” Rep. Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Really, that is all fake hoopla about reversing Bush on ESCs is: a distraction and a bone thrown to the far left who think the research will solve all Man’s ills. Of course, the teratomas associated with ESC research might be a hindrance. But, check this out
Obama’s move, scheduled for Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to separate science and politics and “restore scientific integrity in governmental decision-making,” White House domestic policy adviser Melody Barnes said Sunday.
What’s the expiration date on that pledge? Well, we could say it ended the minute Obama ends the restrictions on using federal money for ESC research, since the only folks truly interested in doing the research feed at the federal trough. Private researchers aren’t interested. And let’s not forget that Barry wants all sorts of AGW legislation, including cap and trade. Sure seems to be mixing science and politics, eh?
More:
“In recent years, when it comes to stem cell research, rather than furthering discovery, our government has forced what I believe is a false choice between sound science and moral values,” Obama said at the White House.
Sound science would tell us that over-population is a problem, so, perhaps we should do away with those pesky murder laws, which are based on moral values. And laws against theft and rape are based on moral values, so, let’s get rid of those laws, too, OK?
But, if we want to talk morals, let’s consider that the same people who have no problem aborting babies and using human embryos for scientific research will have complete meltdowns over using animals to test products that help Mankind.
Tigerhawk tells us how to test to see if the science is being politicized.
Ed Morrissey: This decision places politics ahead of science. People demand government funding for hEsc not because it works, but because it’s popular. Pro-abortion activists want it as an endorsement of abortion as some sort of mechanism for scientific advance, and they’ve managed to sucker the rest into thinking that we’ll all die unless we start destroying embryos to keep us alive. No one has offered a single scientific reason to have the federal government fund hEsc research.
And more: regarding the link right after the more tag, Obama and his compliant media are all talking about ESCs curing Parkinson’s. Umm, see, the thing is, there are already treatments for Parkinson’s from using adult stem cells, and have been for years. Matter of fact, just this past February there was a big release about the use of ASCs reversing Parkinson’s in a patient. So, do we want to put our money into what is working, or what has so far not worked, and is simply a bone thrown to left wingers?
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So Obama will “restore scientific integrity in governmental decision-making”?
That’s great news! I assume this means no more pandering to the global warming lobby, right?
Of course, penalizing charitable giving, as the Administration does in its new budget, coupled with large increases in funding for universities and controversial items like embryonic stem cell and AGW, will decrease politics in science ! Right, more government funding always decreases politics in science. I forgot that rule.
I am for a diversity of funding sources and believe the government has a role in basic sciences, but who are the kidding about “taking politics out of science”. It is like the Earmark issue. They were just the other sides earmarks and politics. For Thee, but not for Me.
Republicans are having a good laugh over Rush fiasco, we get to defend him…..and we are working on stemming empryonic stem cell usages. The research on this junk science show that cancer cells kill the patients after the transplant. Getting out the word on junk science embyonic stem cell transplants is heard by everyone but the bamas and Arnie in CA.
GOD is helping his creations to live by allowing the other adult stem cell and placenta stem cells transplants to cure all kinds of things including damaged heart cells. God Is Good.
Divorce science from politics? You mean like they have been divorced in the whole global warming (non) issue?
Yeah, give me a break Barky.
We have a professional speech-maker in the White House. How comforting.
Today is a big, big day for science and the President. I am alive because I had a stem cell transplant in 1999. One of my best friends is also alive becasue of a transplant from her brother. She has host v graft disease as a result but I guarantee you she’d rather be alive with it than croaked without. My dad had Parkinsons disease and was increasingly miserable for twenty years before it finally killed him. The transplants my friend and I had aren’t controversial, but they do work, and embryonic materials have even more promise.
Big, big day for science!!!!
Embryonic stem cell research is and has been active for years. The issue is whether or not taxpayer money should be used for it – not whether or not it’s a worthy pursuit.
University’s want the government grants. That’s what it’s all about. Getting funding. Money.
Embryonic stem cell research is and has been active for years. The issue is whether or not taxpayer money should be used for it – not whether or not it’s a worthy pursuit.
University’s want the government grants. That’s what it’s all about. Getting funding. Money.
BTW I love your blog!