Posted on 03/13/2009 8:12:20 PM PDT by Between the Lines
If he signed it unknowingly, it just means full funding by October.
Looks like Malia and Sasha friends will not be going to school together. Obama says, private school for my family, not for thee!
Among the amendments rejected were measures to effectively ensure continued funding for the District of Columbia's school-voucher program,
Heh - Heh - Heh! Whoa - who paid for this duff’s education - no wonder his school records are in a lock box.
Then again - this guy is POTUS and his thugs are running his country?
You won’t hear this from the MSM like you would if Bush made an error like this. Just like if that was Bush who screwed up the welcome with Gordon Brown, the MSM would have been proudly proclaiming it loud and often.
if he were a woman, they’d be blaming it on his gender.
This is astonishing. I recall something about communications with Pope Benedict over the past week...maybe he spiritually galvanized Obama’s spine?
**I am Cracking Ribs With Laughter (CRWL).**
The way the “Little Fuhrer” is working... he’ll find out Monday Morning... I”d wager in Vegas... LF has NO IDEA what he did ... YET!!
Can’t wait..he gonna get so ANGRY , he gonna turn WHITE!!
"He hasn't a clue...He can't even buy one."
Is this not just simply socialist-style governance? Make everything, anything, unlawful. Prosecute violations selectively for any positive result for the regime. Claim one day that you are 'For X'; tomorrow, "Against X'.
Kerry and many others do it regularly on a much smaller scale.
I'm not persuaded this is a gaffe.
Well, by rescinding Bush's EO he did manage to stop federal funding for existing embryonic stem cell lines where the embryos had already been destroyed, and for non-embryonic stem cell research. So there's that. Orrin Hatch? You've got to be kidding. Orrin Hatch thinks it's ok to kill a 14 day old future human being in order to experiment on it? Utah Freepers, I hope you bombard his offices over this, then primary him. Time for him to find another line of work. Unbelievable.
CRWL - again
You got me thinkin'. Michael Jackson must have been perty angry one day.
From the same guy who said “This is the worst economy since the great depression” last week, and yesterday said, “The US economy is strong.”
Or did it? In January of 1999, Harriet Rabb, the top lawyer at the Department of Health and Human Services, released a legal opinion that would set the course for Clinton Administration policy. Federal funds, obviously, could not be used to derive stem cell lines (because derivation involves embryo destruction). However, she concluded that because human embryonic stem cells "are not a human embryo within the statutory definition," the Dickey-Wicker Amendment does not apply to them. The NIH was therefore free to give federal funding to experiments involving the cells themselves (what Republican Senator Sam Brownback, of Kansas, called a bit of "legal sophistry.")http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/dispatches/050413.html Senator Brownback's assessment of "legal sophistry" was correct then, and I have no doubt that that sort of slick definition-crafting will be employed again by Obama.
Sorry, not used to posting links and such, the formatting’s a little off.
Elfman2, thank you for being a calm and intelligent reader who works to avoid biases that would cloud his comprehension.
This is why the Dickey-Wicket Amendmendment was changed since then to inculde this
Maybe it is a bit cynical, but they’ll just weasel their way around that as well.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
Only in the sense that the Dickey-Wicker prohibitions are still in force, although its language poses problems for induced pluripotent stem cells, IMHO, withholding comment on all of this executive and legislative legerdemain.
The text of Section 509 of the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, reads as follows:
SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be used for—(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.204(b) and section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). (b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.
LOL!!
Good one!
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