Gulianni: Bush first Prez to allow stem cell research

[dennis4868]

Just saw a replay of Meet the Whores and there was a Gulianni lovefest going on with Tim Russert....Rudy said that Bush is the first Prez to give federal funds for stem cell research.....i remember a few weeks back this was debunked...not sure if it was by David Brock's Media Matters or by some other organization....but basically this is not true...if someone remembers the details of this please let me know....Rudy is lieing his arese off again for Georgie!

[yardwork]

1. That's gonna make the fundies mad....

I'm amused by this effort to make the Repukes look moderate this week in NYC. It will backfire. The fundies don't like moderate.

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. Fundies just don't like anyone else

If you're not a fundie, you're a terrorist.


Lick Laura's Bush - Drop Bush Not Bombs! - FUCK BUSH
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[dennis4868]

3. Found the source that proves Rudy lied....

FROM MEDIAMATTERS.ORG

Krauthammer echoed misleading Bush administration claim on stem cells

Syndicated Washington Post columnist and FOX News Channel contributor Charles Krauthammer falsely claimed that "up until this administration, there was a ban" on federal funding for stem cell research. "The president, he broke the ban," Krauthammer said on the August 12 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume, adding that "he said that he will support with the federal tax dollars some stem-cell research." Krauthammer's comments expanded upon First Lady Laura Bush's recent claim that President George W. Bush was the first president ever to fund stem cell research.

The truth is that Bush's stem cell policy replaced a less restrictive set of rules issued by the Clinton administration, though those rules had yet to take effect. On August 10, 2001, the day after Bush's nationally-televised speech announcing his new stem cell policy, The Washington Post explained that "the new policy will replace guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health a year ago under the Clinton administration that would have allowed the first federal subsidies of human embryo cell research." More broadly, the "ban" that Krauthammer referred to did not target stem cell research specifically. Rather, in each year since 1996, Congress has passed a general ban on research in which human embryos are damaged or destroyed. But scientists realized the potential of stem cell research only in the late 1990s; Clinton's 2000 guidelines were a response to this newly-emerging field of research, as The Washington Post explained on August 24, 2000.


more here...http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200408130009

[krkaufman]

4. Never as simple....

Two quick articles reviewed would indicate that Bush may be the first to fund embryonic stem cell research -- while also being the first to restrict stem cell research overall.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/poll010626.html

President Bush is considering whether to continue a Clinton administration policy allowing federal funding of stem cell research. Bush was reported last week to be leaning against it, given opposition from some political conservatives, anti-abortion groups and the Roman Catholic Church. Catholics are swing voters.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64016-2004Aug13

It is true indeed that Bush's predecessors, from George Washington to Bill Clinton, failed to fund embryonic stem cell research. Even Abraham Lincoln. Not a penny for stem-cell research from any of them. Historians believe this might have been because it didn't exist yet. But that's just a guess.

George Bush gave this nascent research a tiny sliver of money and piled on a smothering load of restrictions. As Laura Bush did not note, that makes Bush the only president ever to authorize federal rules against stem cell research.

[Erika]

5. Laura Bush

The true Stepford wife. She makes me gag.