FDA nomination will go nowhere

President Bush nominated Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach last week to serve as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, but the nomination likely won’t go anywhere. That’s because Democrats vow to block the appointment until the FDA finally makes a new decision on the “morning after” pill. Meanwhile, Bush — not wanting to upset his socially conservative base, given his weak poll numbers — is unlikely to push the FDA for that decision. Also, The New York Times has an interesting recap of the politics behind Plan B — including how the administration reneged on its promise last year to make a decision on Plan B in exchange for Democrats not blocking Bush’s previous nominee to the FDA.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

7 Comments

  1. J M Walker
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 5:07 am | Permalink

    I guess all things still come down to the abortion issue. Sad. Not that anybody nominated by Bush would be any good in whatever office he or she is nominated for.

  2. A guy from up north
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    I just saw in the morning paper where a lot of imported poisonous drugs and getting on retail shelves.Why do imported drugs get to bypass FDA approval and domestic drugs do not?

  3. J M Walker
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 10:32 am | Permalink

    Could you post a URL link to that story? Sounds interesting.

  4. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 10:38 am | Permalink

    God, gays and guns Walker. That is all that american politics is about. All issues come down to one of the above in the land of rove.

    I think abortion falls under the god one. But at the end of the day, so do gays and guns for the god crowd.

  5. A guy from up north
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 11:02 am | Permalink

    JMI don’t have a URL but if you can go to the March 20 Salina Journal, you can find it in there.XXX has their URL.

  6. XXX
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 11:57 am | Permalink

    http://www.saljournal.com/It takes FOREVER to load.

  7. ProudLib
    Posted March 20, 2006 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    The Bush administration broke their promise to allow Plan B contraception if Dems went along with their last administrator?

    I can’t believe that Bush would break his word like that (heavy sarcasm).

    Actually, it would be harder to find an example of when he ever KEPT his word on anything.