‘Sound science’ indeed

Substitute “the State Board of Education” for “Japan.” Then replace the phrases “food safety” and “international trade policy” with “education standards,” and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., could have been condemning his home state’s new science education standards last week rather than Japan’s ban of U.S. beef:
“Japan has chosen to ignore internationally recognized science and instead based their food safety on emotion and politics. . . . We’re not going to stand idly by while politics and posturing drive international trade policy rather than sound science.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman

5 Comments

  1. JUSTA GUY
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 6:37 am | Permalink

    ” politics and posturing”, damn Pat that’s all you have been doing for years. lol

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 8:50 am | Permalink

    Rhonda: ” We’re not going to stand idly by while politics and posturing drive international trade policy rather than sound science.”

    However you will stand by while ” politics and posturing drive international trade policy ” when it comes to the American driven economic sanctions against Syria?

    Almost like Canada asking the world to sanction the United States for not indicting Karl Rove { which is really not a bad idea }.

    Israel wants to wreak havoc on Syria’s economy with crippling sanctions, so that ” politics and posturing will drive international trade policy ” based on Syria’s cooperation to solve a murder which did not take place in Syria and concerned an ex-Prime Minster of a different country is somehow alright?

    John Bolton, America’s so-called Ambassador to the United Nations, actually a Zionist Israel-First, America-last, neoconservative crackpot is pushing a United Nations Resolution to punish Syria. Sounds altogether politically driven and political posturing to me.

    Might Bolton start with getting Israel to comply with the 32 UN Resolutions which Israel refuses to adhere to?

    “What’s good for the Goose is also good for the Gander.”

    Oh, by all means, let’s put Japan on the front burner. Aw yes, Japan is such a worldwide trouble-maker. { Yeah right }

  3. Joe Williams
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 8:53 am | Permalink

    LOL! How ironic.

  4. Galahad
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 1:41 pm | Permalink

    If you substitute the words “for the Bush cronies, by the Bush cronies, and of the Bush cronies” for the original words in the Gettysburg Address, you’d have an accurate assessment of how our gov’t works.

  5. Jed
    Posted October 31, 2005 at 8:29 pm | Permalink

    You have to realize that science is only sound when it supports the right’s pre-conceived notions.