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Filibusters, stem cells, and a floppy Iraqi package

Posted 25 May 2005 in Democrats, hypocrisy, liberals, political correctness, science, stem cell research, war

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There’s been so much going on in the past few days. Last week, I had my two best friends in town. We got together to see the new Star Wars movie, and then had a few days to hang out and socialize. We visited Dallas’ West End (a veritable graveyard) and Deep Ellum (no longer the wild-and-crazy place it used to be due to police crackdown on the high crime). Both places really sucked! Of course, after my friends leave, I find out where all the action is: along Greenville Ave. I gave myself a smack upside the head, a’la the old V-8 commercials. How could I have forgotten that? Oh well, live and learn.

On the political scene, we’ve had the whole messy business in the Congress regarding filibusters and Bush’s judicial nominees that the Democrats didn’t want to vote on. I still don’t understand that. If these nominees were so extremist and repulsive, wouldn’t it be easy to point that out in debate and then vote on it? If these folks were truly the horrors that the Dems were implying, no Republican in his/her right mind would allow a yes vote to sink their own career (yeah, I hear the Libs already saying that all Repubs aren’t in their right minds anyway). Could it be that the Dems simply disagree with them politically and don’t want to allow the majority to rule, as provided by our Constitution (and, not ironically, by the American voters)? Well, now we’ve got some turncoat Republicans who were willing to sacrifice the good of the country (and their party) by going along with the Democrats to avoid a confrontation that really should have happened. Great, we averted a fight, and a few nominees get voted on. But this filibuster issue isn’t going to go away. Like so many other things “patched” in Congress, this issue will be back to haunt us soon.

Then we have the issue of stem cell research. That’s the biggie right now. I was somewhat surprised to hear one of my friends bashing Bush for being against SCR. From everything I’ve read, I have yet to see any miracle cures that have come from it. This whole fight is over Federal funding. That is, taking taxpayer dollars and enabling the destruction of human life in the name of research. As with just about anything else, follow the money. You can bet your ass if we were even remotely close to any kind of cure or breakthrough, the pharmaceutical companies wouldn’t be allowing the government’s fingers in their lucrative pie. They’d be funding things themselves so they could own all the patents and make gazillions of dollars from the sale of the cure(s). But they’re smart. They want to let the Government (read: the American taxpayers) soak up the cost of development and then turn around and keep the profits for themselves.

And this is all without even touching on the moral implications of harvesting human embryos for research purposes. To me, it evokes a mental image of the current plasma centers which pay donors, only the clientele would be pregnant women looking to score a little moolah for that unwanted pregnancy. Just what we need; another reason to cheapen human life. I’m sure someone will jump in here and correct me on this, but I thought I had read how there are many kind of stem cells that may be used for research, not just the ones from babies. If that’s the case, then why not continue to use those and steer clear of opening the gate for using human embryos and/or cloning humans for the purpose scientific experiments?

Speaking of cheap human life, did everyone see Saddam in his undies?

Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT

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