Posted on 04/09/2007 7:03:04 AM PDT by Mo1
Take the money that you are not being taxed and invest it in embryonic stem cell research
I’m sure between all the Million and Billionaires in the Senate .. they could pool their money together and start their own Pharmaceutical Company
Harry said that they would be voting on S. 5 at 5:30 EDT tonight..and then S. 30, after that.
S. 5...is the BOO,HISS one...S. 30 is the Coleman/Isaakson one that Pres. Bush said he would go along with.
That one would use embryonic stem cells that would be determined to NOT be able to produce a viable fetus.
Sen. Coburn explained it yesterday..and he made it sound so simple...
Of course then Harkin got up and complained that Pres. Bush is trying to be the moral determiner...not, noting that they are also doing that..but at least Prs. Bush isn’t asking taxpayers to pay for the killing of babies.
PING
I thought it was the reverse.
As usual, Hatch argues his case well, although I don't agree with him on this one.
Were you watching yesterday afternoon when Sen. CAAB was up speaking??
He was having a colliquy with Brownback, I believe...and he went into a long explanation about the 2 different bills...and why he was going to vote for the one that Brownback was backing...but, he said, “that is why I am going to vote for S. 5, instead of S. 30.....wait, no, I will not be voting for S. 30..but FOR S. 5....no, that isn’t right either...(talks to his aide)...okay, I WILL be backing the S. 30 Republican substitute, not the S. 5...bill..(laughs)..
It was so funny....but, now that you said it is S. 30 that is the BOO, HISS...I AM NOW confused....yikes! LOL
Well, if the good Senator from Alabama is also confused, we have nothing to be ashamed of :)
Here is the what our family discussed the other day...kaybugs has Type 1 diabetes...she was diagnosed at 5, two years ago.
Now...even IF it required FEDERAL funding of embryonic stem cell research (btw, we all agreed we don’t like ANY embryonic stem cell research if it destroys viable embryos)...we would NOT want that to happen, because kaybugs herself, or the itty bitty one, COULD have been that destroyed embryo.
When I think of my life without having had kaybugs or the itty bitty one in it...it is just not the one I want to live in.
She takes her disease quite well...it hasn’t stopped her from being a cheerleader, swimmer...great student and fun kid!
ALSO...everyone seems to forget that the ESC research HASN’T resulted in ANY cures...not like the ones on other stem cells from other sources.
I am very disappointed in Orrin Hatch on this one...Specter I undertand.
You’ve made kaybugs and the itty bitty one part of our lives to, to all of our delight.
I worry that I talk about them too much...I apolgize if I do...but, so much of what is discussed here on FR does affect them..but, mostly it affects MY attitude toward the future, FOR them.
You do NOT talk about them too much.
LOL...very good.
Did any of you hear Harry Reid on Brit’s show regarding the meeting about the War supplemental??
no i did hear it .. i was trying to get dinner on the table
WHO-HOOOOOOO
Senate bill S. 30 passed 70-28...and the S. 5 bill didn’t get a veto proof majority!!
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