STEM CELL BATTLE HEATING UP AGAIN
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With the country overwhelmingly behind them, both the House and Senate passed stem cell research bills last year. Bush, catering to his narrow, extremist base, vetoed the bill and the Democrats didn't have the strength to override him. According to today's New York Daily News, Harry Reid's office thinks they're within one or two votes of overriding Bush now. The House passed a bill as soon as they were back in session, 253-174 and the Senate will do likewise tomorrow. "The margin of victory in the House was not enough to beat a Bush veto. But activists and Democratic strategists hope that a Senate override can change the dynamic and raise the pressure on more House Republicans to support a measure that is broadly popular with the public." It looks like it's working because wingnuts are already running around screaming that the sky is falling.
Meanwhile, today's USAToday has graciously afforded uber-reactionary Sam Brownback the opportunity to show readers why he is utterly unfit for public office, at least in the 21st Century. (If not more fit, at least he would have fit in were he campaigning for something in the 11th or 12th Century.) An Opus Dei loon, adamantly opposed to stem cell research, Brownback doesn't care if 99 senators approve it; he's filibusterin'. And this narrow-minded pre-Neanderthal would like to be president.
UPDATE: REMEMBER WHEN PROGRESSIVES FELT LIKE THEY WERE BEING CRUSHED BETWEEN A ROCK AND A SQUISHY PLACE WHEN IT CAME TO THE MONSTROUS SANTORUM AND THE SOMEWHAT LESS MONSTROUS CASEY?
Tony Perkins' extremist Family Research Council sure is grateful to the reactionary Senator Casey today. Funny how Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter is voting with the Democrats on this and Casey has slinked over to Bush. Remember it was Schumer and the DSCC who shoved Casey down our throats. Have they asked you for money lately?
Labels: Bob Casey, Brownback, Republican presidential race, stem cell research
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 11:31 AM
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Once again, when it comes to the lives and well being of women there isn't an ounce of difference between Casey Jr and Santorum. They will vote in exactly the same way.
One wishes that the Democratic party would thrown white males under the Big Bus as a sacrifice for the greater good of the party but they won't, not even to help support the children they insist be born now that the Democratic party has abrogated all responsibility for and representation of the poor. But make no mistake, serious women, those of us who aren't trying to establish careers for themselves with blogs and fundraising, understand exactly what those who insisted that Casey is preferable to Santorum meant. We never agreed to this sacrifice of our basic human rights (for the good of the country, of course) and despise the men and women who championed it and shoved it down our collective throats.
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