Where Republicans turn on one another

Looks like that tense TV exchange between Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter (bald from chemo) was a warm-up. The Senate reportedly will debate embryonic stem-cell research next month, when a bipartisan group will push for allowing federal funds to support research of stem cells gleaned from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization. The president hasn’t budged, and Brownback is still talking filibuster. “This is the central moral issue of our day,” he recently told The Washington Times. It also may be the issue on which moderate and conservative Republicans most differ today.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

2 Comments

  1. Jeff Yearout
    Posted June 27, 2005 at 8:30 am | Permalink

    I thought Republicans didn’t believe in the filibuster. Oh, yeah, they only think that when the filibuster works against them. Those darn rules! Boy they get in the way sometimes! Boy they sure are helpful sometimes!

  2. Tara C
    Posted June 27, 2005 at 5:35 pm | Permalink

    You know, we’ve been the world’s greatest superpower long enough now. Let China or Europe be the first to develop breakthrough medical technologies using stem cell research. At least we’ll have our “core values”, even if we are about as powerful as Canada.