...with that Michael Fox thing...
So how do people who value life and understand the balance of scientific research showing Adult Stem Cells are more promising address a glamorous, high-school drop out, victim of a disease stating the falsity that there was a federal ban on "stem cells"?
Bush was the first president to spend federal money on embryonic stem cell research. I don't know why the Reps didn't mention that fact more rather than being so defensive. Private research is not banned. It is all about who funds it, not whether the research will be conducted.
Leaders. We need leaders who come out and state the truth. Hey, go with me here, the President of the U.S. has a right nice bully pulpit and no way could the drive-by ignore anything he says.
So why did he swallow big and fire that Brown guy when Katrina was all about lazy individuals who sat on rooftops and waited for the Feds to come rescue them? Why didn't he state the simple truth and declare America to be a nation of rugged individuals and the federal government was never MEANT to come in right after a disaster and rescue people from rooftops? Then he could have went on and stated that after the individual he could have said the response then goes to local then to state authorities. THEN he could have pointed out how quickly the Coast Guard was hefting people out of danger and heh, maybe mention that it doesn't help when the local congress critter in the form of William Jefferson-D-Louisiana absconds with helicoptors meant to rescue others to save his ill-gained cash.
As for stem cell, well same thing. While voices lost in the wind screamed that the federal government has NOT banned stem cell research, even embryonic research, that such research can be privately funded, the voices that SHOULD have been speaking remained silent.
Same with Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Same with, same with. They LET the Dems and drive-by media run the show.
So okay the Pres of the U.S. can't just go and get mired down with every detail but how about that awful tone-deaf Hastert, vaunted Speaker of the House? The only time I saw that fatso out and about was to defend William Jefferson-D-Louisiana and to practically lick boots over the Foley matter.
Frist, how about him? Did he ever publicly dispute that Saddam lie? Did he ever look the American people in the eye and state the heirarchy that SHOULD have worked for Katrina?
They let it go on and on and on and even while the Pres begged them to do something about SS reform the House didn't want to go there because they didn't want to lose the AARP vote. So that THEY could keep their power.
Did that complex prescription medicare thing help them a whit? NO. Read my lips, they STILL lost.
I'm not done yet but fingers are tired. Let me catch what little wits I have left.
And hey, may I point out that even when the base like to went ballistic over Spector on the judiciary committee and that little bridge to Alaska to serve 50 people living on an island, one such resident being Stevens' mother-in-law, they spit in our faces and did it anyway!
Okay...stop me now.