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Did you have a link to an article or anything for us?
You know I relay on you guys for all my news!
I have heard that Sen. Frist before entering politics that he was either a cardiologist or a thoracic surgeion. If this is true, then its only a matter of course and natural that he back stem cell research.
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Originally Posted by colleen
I did have one, but it was old and to the wrong info. I saw this on Fox news and was unable to find a decent article online. Can't delete a thread.
Frist was known as, (and still is known) as a really excellent doctor. He was a specialist and his family owns that large HMO/hospital company in the Nashville Tennesse area.
Total speculation, but some of the biggest republican supporters (that contribute money to the party) are pro stem cells. As a science freak myself, the science and logic to proceed
are obvious to me. The republican party is hurting its more well healed and intelligent base
by attacking two important programs that the country club republicans don't really want changed. One: They want stem cell research, and they want if to go full speed.
Two: They really don't want social security changed radically if at all. The social security
is the key, because the repulican can lost the Senate over this issue, and the House
(while properly gerrymandered to insure republican dominance) could be lost if they
keep pissing us off. I am a strong Reagan Republicn. I was a marginal Bush I Republican
but I am not a Bush II Republican because of these two issues primarily. Ronald Reagan would not have changed social security into some weird unsecure investment scheme,
and he would have pushed not hindered stem cell research.
For the rest of you the key is Speaker Hastert. I'm in his district whic h goes from the
far far west Chicago suburbs that zren't Chicago to the Mississippi River. (Hastert dumped
the in close Chicago suburbs so he would have a safer more republican distrct.)
Hastert is a popular Speaker with the people who matter most. The Representatives in the house of both parties who work with him and who vote him into office. They are all strangely silent on ANY critisism. Even the Democrats realize they could get another Newt, and they would rather stick with Hastert.
Quietly Hastert has done the following which the newspapers don't seem to pick up on.
The House has already passed a pro stem cell bill. If Frist and the Senate do the same
a conference committee will pound out a single Bill for all of Congress to vote on.
The House will NOT proceed on the Bush Social Security Plan. With the August recess coming up, (A recess that lasts into early October at times), Hastert believes that to proceed
on the Social Security Bill now is political suicide. He was even quietly quoted in a small newspaper in Illinois on this.
The old people in Plano/Yorkville Illinois where Hastert grew up depend on Social Security,
and its that way in the south in many small towns in the U.S.
The cynical device to not change your social security if you are over 55 is like buying those
vote off and screwing everyone under 55.