Arnold Zweifel, son of Fred and Doris Zweifel of Hooterville. 
Any relation?
Posted on 07/25/2006 5:14:54 PM PDT by SJackson
I really do try hard not to dislike George W. Bush as a person.
But then he pulls a stunt like he did last week in vetoing a bill that would have allowed researchers in this country to get more help in exploring the many promises of stem cells.
The veto was almost beside the point. It was the smarmy way he and the cynical entourage with which he has surrounded himself played to the TV cameras and the religious zealots they hope will storm the polls for small-minded Republicans like himself this fall.
Parading an entourage of cute little kids onto the stage (can't you picture the frantic search Bush's underlings conducted to round up enough of these kids for the event?), he claimed that they were all given life by a frozen embryo that had been created for in vitro fertilization, implying that none would be alive today if the bill he was vetoing had been the law of the land.
In other words, those crazy scientists in our universities like the UW's Jamie Thompson, I guess would be willy-nilly grabbing frozen embryos from the clutches of prospective parents and snuffing out lives like the little toddler Bush was holding in his arms.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The embryos the nation's stem cell researchers would have been permitted to use are ones that were to be discarded. But, as we all know so well after these past six years, truth never gets in the way of a George Bush political initiative. If we can lie about the need to go to war, surely we can lie about stem cell researchers.
Too bad there wasn't another stage where grandpas and grandmas with Alzheimer's, or young people in wheelchairs for life because of spinal injuries, or young fathers suffering from the early stages of Parkinson's could have been paraded in front of the cameras to demonstrate the cruelty of Bush's veto. Embryos are created every day. The lives of those suffering people are forever lost unless, of course, the promise of stem cells is someday realized.
And then there was the blatant hypocrisy.
Here was a president pandering to his righteous religious base about the "sanctity" of human life. The same president who repeatedly lied to get his country into a war that has taken the lives of tens of thousands of human beings and injured and maimed many thousands more.
Somehow I don't want to be lectured about the value of human life by the likes of him.
ROTFLMAO!
The secular leftists never let the truth stand in the way of an agenda(to devalue human life-they're coming at it from a multitude of angles). The only time they're against killing is when it's the just retribution of society against criminals,or when it's a war based on a principled stand against evil.
Lib talking points
Bush With Snowflake Babies Makes Time's
Klein 'Want to Throw Up'
Apparently the sight of George W. Bush surrounded by cute babies is enough to make Time's Joe Klein "want to throw up." On this weekend's syndicated Chris Matthews Show, the panel discussion turned to Bush's veto of expanded stem cell research and his appearance with "snowflake babies." For Klein it was too much to take: "That photo-op, this week with all of those babies made me want to throw up. It is so transparently political and cynical."
[This item, by Geoff Dickens, was posted Monday afternoon on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org ]
Substituting for Chris Matthews, NBC's David Gregory teased the segment at the top of the show: "Most voters favor full-speed ahead on stem cells but the President hit the brakes. Could this be political disaster in November?" Gregory opened the panel discussion with a soundbite from Nancy Pelosi declaring: "In vetoing the legislation, the President will be saying no to 75 percent of the American people." NBC's Andrea Mitchell then noted that while the veto will energize some in Bush's base it also: "Doesn't track at all politically with people in his own party, with, you know, the soccer moms, with other constituencies that Republicans have been trying to court. It flies in the face of that." Gregory then threw it to Klein:
"Joe, is he trying to thread a needle here? I mean, this is for the base that's angry with him on immigration, over the war. But there's a lot of moderates in suburban districts, Republicans who say, 'Hey, wait a minute, you're on the wrong side of this.'"
Klein: "And there's another aspect to this as well. That photo-op, this week with all of those babies made me want to throw up. It is so transparently political and cynical. I mean, you know, I think that the real thing that the Republican campaign Karl Rove is flying into is whether the level of his cynicism about all of these issues, and these sorts of photo-ops is gonna become an issue in this campaign itself. Are people gonna say, 'How dumb do they think we are?'"
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060725.asp#3
I see your point, sometimes it is interesing to see what the socialists in Madison are reporting but I always feel like I need to take a shower after reading that site.
I know what you mean. Sometimes I laugh so hard, I need a shower. :>)
Their mothers dropped them on their heads while lighting up their boyfriends' doobies, which proves that you should never rely on cheap roachclips if you are going to dangle a baby from your arm.
I couldtell by the way dave used that word Smarmy that he is a lying sack of crap. I didnt boter to read any farther. That word seems to lurk on every Bush bashers lips.
I distinctly remember many years ago when the Klintons were trying to push their universal healthcare when during a press conference the Prez read a letter from a mother in Calif. who claimed they had lost their house due to healthcare costs (they chose not to carry insurance) acquired for one of their children that they could not afford.
immediately after that photo op, a lady from the county welfare dept. where that family lived called into a prominent radio talk show program and gave the specifics of that family's problem.
It seems that that family was not too cooperative with the hospital and totally rejected all offers of help that were offered by that county agency...........A classic setup job by the Dems.......
Arnold Zweifel, son of Fred and Doris Zweifel of Hooterville.
Any relation?
Where's the barf alert?
If stem cells are the way to solving all of the sicknesses in the world, why isn't there some Pharma. Company stepping up to the plate to do it themselves? If this is a homerun, wouldn't some company take the bull by the horns and develop this on their own?
Two lies in the very first sentence, and I don't need to read any more.
Nope. He'd have to change planes twice and rent a row boat to get back to reality.
Supporting the culture of life is a stunt?
I had no idea.
No need to read further. BS.
"This guy is sick. That's why we will probably end up in a war with his kind."
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Hardly. The effete group of self-professed intellectuals have only their moral depravity to bolster their coward's heart. Furthermore, they are scared $hitless of guns. Like children with an adult, they will cry, but not fight. It will be up to us to show them the required "tough love," to get them headed back in the right direction.
The capitalists are not going to fund useless research.
Let capitalism work.
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Thank you. Geesh, I feel like my head is going to explode when there is "debate" on non-issues, of unrelayed facts. The Plame deal is another perfect example. The real question is should our middleman, the Goobermint, give our money to people to research this... if you are Independent, Conservative, have any economic background, common sense, are not on the dole, the answer to the above question IS NO about 97.6% of the time, completely independent of the topic. The other 2.4% of the time, we can sit down and have a discourse. Gosh, who is in charge of "framing the debate," because I would like to thank them a pantload.
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