Harkin is to braindead what an outhouse is to stink.
Posted on 05/27/2005 7:13:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
DES MOINES --- Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Thursday that President George W. Bush's opposition to expanded federal support for stem cell research merely delays the inevitable ---- a point he made with an example from the civil-rights struggle.
Bush is "sort of our modern-day George Wallace, standing in the schoolhouse door," Harkin said in a conference call with reporters.
Wallace was the governor of Alabama who famously stood in the door of the University of Alabama in an attempt to stop two African American students from registering.
"The fact is, that the walls of segregation were going to come tumbling down, we were going to move ahead with integration, and no matter what George Wallace did, it was going to happen. And I think it's the same way with President Bush," Harkin said.
Harkin and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., are co-sponsoring a bill in the Senate that would expand the federal role in embryonic stem cell research. The House passed a version of the bill earlier this week, overcoming objections of Republican leaders and a veto threat from Bush.
Bush has said he doesn't want to destroy life in the name of medical progress.
The bill would allow federal money to be used for research using embryos left over from fertility treatments. Backers of the measure say it could lead to advances in treatment for diseases like Alzheimer's.
Bush has allowed research on a small number of stem-cell lines, but Harkin said the lines are not useful because they are contaminated with mouse cells.
"The president's approach is just a dead end. It just offers false hope to millions of people who need these kinds of cures," he said.
The sides in the stem cell issue are generally separated along the same lines as in the abortion debate, though there are some notable exceptions, such as Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who opposes abortion, but supports the current bill.
In the House vote, Democrat Leonard Boswell and Republican Jim Leach voted for the bill and Republicans Steve King, Tom Latham and Jim Nussle voted against it.
"We can do far more medically with other types of research, without destroying human life," King said Thursday.
He said Harkin's comment about Wallace is a "bizarre comparison."
Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has indicated he's leaning against the bill.
Wallace was a democrat.
"Harkin and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., are co-sponsoring a bill in the Senate that would expand the federal role in embryonic stem cell research."
And Specter is all set to override the President's veto:
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one major difference between Bush and Wallace...
Wallace was a democrat, just like almost all KKK members.
People always seem to forget that.
Anyone who isn't using the embyonic stem cell research issue as a proxy for the abortion issue, knows that adult stem cells are the future of the research and the future of actual effective treatments.
ESC's are just a proxy for the abortion argument or trying to spin Bush as against research because he is a christian.
I imagine most people can see through it, but then, at any given time, 35% people of the population is too dumb to understand any issue so the Left still goes to it.
Harkin is to braindead what an outhouse is to stink.
I'll never understand this Dim obsession with dead babies.
It's not really all that bizarre. It's just Democrat code for "I have no rational argument whatsoever." Really just routine procedure.
Unfortunately most people know very little about the debate, thanks to slanted reporting, like this, by the msm and their own laziness. They know nothing about adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, placental and other sources. They also know nothing about the money connection to the abortion industry and selling baby parts.
Bingo.
It is not just that they are facinated with dead babies: THey demnad that the rest of us to join in with them.
Harkin is accusing Bush of being for segregation?
And that has to do with embryonic stem cell research, how?
Hold on a second.....
I don't get it. These leftists support PETA which opposes animal testing.
In order to prove the that stem cells are a viable and safe treatment, whether embryonic or adult-- they MUST be tested on mice first!
Bush is to Wallace what Harkin is to active duty combat pilots in Vietnam... not even close.
I heard that the House vote was NOT veto proof!
Democrats are to America what more fleas are to a sick horse.
Tom Harkin, D-Iowa is to Liberal as Faust is to the Devil !
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