Boehner slams Obama on stem cells

[babylonsister]

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/03/09/boehner-slams-obama-on-stem-cells/

Boehner slams Obama on stem cells
@ 12:52 pm by Jeremy P. Jacobs


That didn't take long. House Minority Leader John Boehner just released a statement slamming (and I mean slamming) President Obama for lifting the ban on federal funding for stem cell research.

The headline of the press release sums it up: "President's Embryonic Stem Cell Decision Runs Counter to his Promise to 'Be a President for All Americans.'"

Ouch.

The gist of Boehner's response is that Obama is seeking to divide the country on embryonic stem cell research, which, to social conservatives, amounts to the destruction of human life.

“For a third time in his young presidency, the president has rolled back important protections for innocent life, further dividing our nation at a time when we need greater unity to tackle the challenges before us," Boehner said. "I fully support stem cell research, but I draw the line at taxpayer-funded research that requires the destruction of human embryos, and millions of Americans feel similarly. As we move forward, I am hopeful that the President will re-evaluate this and other controversial decisions that put government at odds with the sanctity of human life."

And just when I was starting to forget how social issues make great wedge issues…

[Ardent15]

1. Social issues have been wedge issues since the 60s counterculture

That's where it really got off the ground.

[billybob537]

2. BONER is an OBSTUCTIONIST

He wants Obama to Fail!

[billybob537]

3. seeking to divide the country on embryonic stem cell research,

The country is already devided: YOUR SIDE LOST!

[sutz12]

4. "Millions of Americans" does not constitute a majority...

STFU, Boner.

[vaberella]

5. Sure thing...and I hope people kick him out of office. n/t

[BOSSHOG]

6. So we get to draw the line on how tax dollars are spent?

What a pandering whore. It must suck to be a five buck slut to religious zealots.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. If only

Boner's parents had opted to give him up to stem cell research when they had the chance............................

He's doing the predictable, pandering to the rightwingnuts, thinking it's still 1980.

The economy fell off a cliff. Even Warren Buffett noticed, much to his credit, although no one can get credit because there's no money out there.

People are losing jobs, homes, retirement savings, health insurance, lives.

So, of course, Boner wants to concentrate on 600,000 embryos that would have been destroyed, but, instead, will be put to good use in scientific research that will benefit far more than those 600,000 clumps of cells.

Boner - the rebel without a clue.............

[madrchsod]

8. i kind of feel sorry for boner

he so wrong on the issues that are important to the american people...so very wrong.

[immoderate]

9. Heh heh, Boehner at the height of his influence...

--imm

[n2doc]

10. Who cares?

People vote on these issues when they have steady jobs and shelter. The majority of America agrees with Obama's decision, and it is about time that the will of the majority was heard in this country.

[Caliman73]

11. WTF do Republicans think are going to happen to those cells anyway?

It is ridiculous to think that there are these embryonic cells that are just sitting in freezers waiting to be used ... or not. Why not use the genetic material to help people cure diseases and live healthier lives. Republicans cannot see their own hypocrisy. They will defend an embryo but they will let a person starve or die a slow painful death due to disease. Pro-life my ass!

[Politicalboi]

17. We can put them all

In Octomom. :rofl:

[tridim]

24. GOP lobbyists can't make money from healthy people.

That's why Boner pulled a boner this morning.

[endarkenment]

12. The party of fat thugs and religious loons - the 20 per centers.

Good news for america!

[Winterblues]

13. I guess he has zero concern for the very great MAJORITY of Americans

that want Stem Cell research. Is he just plain stupid? How can someone please ALL Americans at the same time?

[stray cat]

14. He would rather incinerate the cells used in fertility clinics than use them to help others

[scheming daemons]

15. Actually... it is a case of Obama KEEPING a campaign promise

Again... as always... doing EXACTLY what he said he was going to do.

[TwilightGardener]

16. There's no "ouch" to his statement--"ouch" is reserved for harsh-but-true statements, not

stupid overblown RW tactics and rhetoric.

[NeedleCast]

18. He's not dividing the nation, only shaking out the douchebags

I think we can do without pacifying the cave-dwelling flat-earther fundies.

[spanone]

19. exactly what i expected him to say.....

[jobycom]

20. Being a president for all Americans means defeating the tyranny of the minority that

people like Boehner have exercised for so long. History is one long struggle to overcome frightened conservatives. They held back Galileo, Copernicus, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Susan B Anthony, MLK... They have opposed astronomy, algebra, philosophy, space exploration, medical advances from post-mortem dissections to stem cell research...

At some point you'd think they'd just realize they are always the bad guys in the historical equivalent of a formula western, always spouting the same lines and excuses, always spreading pain, fear, and misery, and always ultimately losing. They'd be comical or just plain pathetic if they hadn't caused so much needless suffering and tragedy through the millenia.

[BluePatriot21]

21. STFU John Boner

Republican bipartisanship means do what we want all the time or else we will wish failure upon you, and moan and bitch and whine if we dont get our way. You lost, stfu already and get out of our WAY!

The country is divided when we woke the fuck up and realized your party doesnt care about us anymore than you care about the people that follow you in your own party. Move over or we will steam roll you into the pavement. If you and your ilk didnt represent pharmacy companies we still wouldnt believe you cared about tiny little cells. You dont even care about full grown fully developed human beings that you blast apart into millions of pieces with your support of bombs and destruction, how can we believe your comedic statements regarding stem cells? When a person was killed in Iraq you gave the family around $1,500 dollars to the remaining wife and children for their tragic loss as their father was killed with yoru support. Here's a nickel for a stem cell now go get a coke have a smile and stfu.

Tell you what Boner, just like the stimulus that you oppose, do not accept any life saving treatment from any of this stem cell research that if successful may help millions of people and cause millions of dollars to be lost to Big Pharmacy that you support. The real reason is profit from your supporters, not tiny little cells. Dont ever try and get treatment from stem cell research you scumbag.

[AngryOldDem]

22. Bullshit.

Didn't Obama say from the start he was planning to overturn the stem-cell ban? So where's the surprise? He's just doing what he said he would do. Good on him.

Boehner is a pain in the ass, a political opportunist of the most cynical stripe, playing to his own audience.
There is really no time for dealing with someone who sets out constantly to obstruct, merely because he sits on the opposite side of the ideological aisle.

Hey, John, the sky outside my window today is a hazy blue, with a touch of gray. But I'm sure you'd argue that it's purple, with pink polka dots -- that's how I see the quality of his arguments on just about anything anymore. Complete waste of time and energy.

[librechik]

23. Obama is seeking to UNITE the country--Boehner could join with him TO PROTECT INNOCENT LIFE

with diseases stem cell research can help.

BOEHNER IS A DIVIDER. He'd rather have people die than help them. What would Jesus think of THAT!

[tridim]

25. So I take it Boner will refuse stem cell treatment for his inevitable melanoma?

[Autumn]

26. Does this ass know

that they use the ones that would be destroyed anyway? So stupid to think that it is better to just destroy them than use them.