The Rabid Conservative

I commented recently about the stem-cell debate and got to thinking about something last night that actually would help everyone involved (something that we’re supposed to do in politics, rather than widening the chasm).

What if Obama stepped in and supported both Adult Stem Cell research with the same emphasis as Embryonic Stem Cell research, saying something like this:

I believe our answers to problems like Parkinson’s, lie in stem cell research and I’m backing both, adult and embryonic with equal emphasis.  If either one emerges with the answer to the problem, which is more important, that it is embryonic/adult that the cure came from or that the disease was cured and we have improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people?

You see, here’s the thing:  If Obama made such a statement, he could hold on to his convictions about embryonic stem cell research, embrace adult stem cell research with the same strength, and then claim victory when the cure to Parkinson’s emerges.   That would be huge!

Here’s hope and change right before our very eyes, yet, liberals continue to ignore it.  But look at the shock of Oprah Winfrey and the intent of Michael J. Fox in this video clip:

What is so important about embryonic stem cell research that makes it want liberals to avoid the promising amount of research in adult stem-cell research to keep ESCR alive?

Well, did you catch the news on Friday last?  Probably not if you were just getting ready to head out for the weekend, but I give you reference to this little gem that you should see.

In any case, many of the major news sources didn’t bother to pay attention to this.  Turns out that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-owned mortgage giants that own about 40% of the housing market announced Friday that they would be paying out $210M in corporate bonuses out of the $200B in bailout funds from the Treasury Department

So, where is the outrage, Mr. (or Mrs.) Barney Frank?  Why aren’t you dragging the executives before your little House Court of Horrors to make them answer for the disbursement of these bonuses the same way you dragged the CEO of AIG through the mud?  Where’s the anger, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, that motivates you to impose a 90% punitive reclamation tax on them, like you did with AIG?

Well, to sum things up for you, I crafted this little table to illustrate the problem.

The point here is two-fold.

First, when did the media release this little bit?  At the end of the day, when the lowest number of potential people would actually be paying attention.   And since the media is in the tank for the Democrat machine, we can’t have the press going out and making a big noise about the Fannie/Freddie shenanigans.  However, by releasing the story on Friday, they reduce the damage control at the same time giving them the excuse to say they actually released the story.  What drivel.

Second, as illustrated above, raising cane about Fannie/Freddies use of bailout funds to pay off corporate executive bonuses would point the winds of outrage back at the Banking Queen him/her self.  Barney Frank has been toting the banner of support for Fannie and Freddie, even lying before Congress about how solvent they were in 2003-2005, causing people to invest money into the market, only to watch it vanish when we find out that Fannie and Freddie were cooking the books and going downhill fast.

We can see here plainly that the Democrats are hard at work, politicizing the economic crisis (remember Rahm’s statement about not letting a good crisis going to waste?)  meanwhile the media is running their screen play to keep the heat off of Barney.