Did Shaheen try to ‘Cell’ you on another bad deal?

 

The largest deal in Stem Cell research history is under way between two bio-techs who are prepared to invest 1.4 billion of their own money in the joint venture.  Genzyme and Osiris are coordinating an effort to bring the next two stem cell drugs through the end stages of their trials and on to market– Prochymal and Chondrogen.

 

 While this could be the beginning of a new wave of such partnerships, democrats might want to take note:  these are private companies, investing their billions, and they are developing these new drugs with those other stem cells.  You know, the ones that actually produce cures.  The ones that come from Jeanne Shaheen, and the other so called adults in the government, not from harvested embryos. 

(That’s right–Adult Stem cells)

 

 This would bring the number of viable cures and treatments developed from adult stem cells to at least 80, with roughly 1200 more FDA approved clinical trials currently under way.

 

 Embryonic stem cell research, by comparison, has yet to produce one single treatment or cure that I am aware of.  The distinction is critical because our newly minted Senator elect, Jeanne Shaheen, has promised she’d try to pump 12 billion into the National Science Foundation specifically for embryonic stem cell research.  Is she dumb enough to keep the promise?  She certainly is.

 

 

Jeanne Shaheen the tax Machine

This, Courtesy of “Friends of the US chamber“ is a video from the US Chamber of commerce.  As Trex pointed out in his (her?) comment to an earlier post, its a great commercial.  Have a look.

Misleadership – Shaheen

One of my favorite pieces of the Shaheen-Hypocrisy pie, of which there are many, is her evolving stance on the war in Iraq.  She was for it before she was against it.  This of course means she is party to the “we were misled crowd,” the excuse we get from invertebrate politicians, about why they overwhelmingly voted to go to war, (or publicly announced they were in favor of it) but later changed their position.

 

A thoughtful legislator (or legislator in waiting) should be more than willing to acknowledge that there were plenty of good reasons to take out the dictator, and we all felt that had to happen.  And Shaheen was only one of many people who spoke out in favor, appearing to have a grasp on the important issues, supported sending soldiers into harms way.

 

But far fewer had the character or courage to acknowledge after the fact that we didn’t or couldn’t have anticipated all the problems that would result from deposing Saddam in that environment, at that time, in that manner.  When these problems created instability, when it was clear we had a serious problem—one that might leave Iraq worse off than it was before we showed up, instead of engaging in the  effort to plumb the potential benefits or consequences of every option,  the democ-rats jumped ship.

Shaheen, Hypocrite for senate.

Jeanne Shaheen’s team has been making a campaign issue of out-of-state funding, but I wonder if they are ever going to bring up the fact that candidate Shaheen gets 75% of her own campaign money from out of state?  SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT!!  There’s a 2% difference between the candidates. 

 

They also like to point out that Senator Sununu has received money from ‘special interests’ like oil companies.  But every candidate receives money from some special interest. Shaheen’s biggest contributors are Trial Lawyers, unions, and abortion groups.  In fact, ideological single issue groups are her biggest contributors.   

 

So while it’s clear that most candidates at this level get plenty of money from other places, many of them with specific interests, if we have to then identify at least one difference between these candidates based on this information, it has to be that Jeanne Shaheen has chosen to use it as a campaign issue, and John Sununu has not.  The important point there being that Shaheen is a hypocrite. 

You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!

 

Shaheen has launched a four person committee whose sole purpose is to combat what PR gal Kate Bedingfield calls “distortions of Sununu’s record coming from the Republican side.”    But her Truth team for justice and the Non-Republican Way™ is a non-starter from go because this very announcement, coming from the Democrat side, is loaded with distortions of its own.  The two republicans (there are also two “democrats”) may be registered as such, but if you had to point them out in a field manual based on their behavior, you’d be at a total loss.  Republicans?  Where?

So who are Shaheen’s heroes for truth and justice?

Steve Walter is a member of Republicans for Lynch and Republicans for Clinton.  And if that isn’t the stupidest thing you have ever heard of, Mr. Walter even introduced Hillary at a campaign rally during the primaries.  Steve also voted for Kerry based on public statements he’s made.  But in Steve’s defense, his son has juvenile diabetes, and he seems to be voting for anyone who will heavily fund embryonic stem cell research.  My heart goes out to him, his son and his family, but I have yet to see any evidence that embryonic research is the more viable path, particularly given the tremendous success of Adult stem cell research and the complete lack of results even from privately funded embryonic research.  While I understand his motivation, and don’t begrudge him his priorities, I can’t share his current vision for a cure, or support the people he believes will help him find it; mostly because the cost to the rest of us is too great.  These people might fund his research for good or bad, but they are also in favor of so many other things I abhor that any victory in my mind would be pyrrhic.

Having said that it is ideologically impossible to support the policies of Clinton, Lynch, or Shaheen, even casually (because when you vote for one policy you get them all), and still call yourself a Republican.  And when you are trolled out as one of two token republicans for the purpose of demonstrating an attempt at balance in a political “truth” experiment, when you are clearly voting and supporting democrats in high places (and don’t question any other consequences from the rest of their agenda) I have a problem.   Steve, I want badly for you and your son to find a cure, but in New Hampshire we have people just like you who call themselves independents because of these kinds of policy conflicts.

Rick Russman is also a big Lynch supporter and votes green above all else.   Like Steve Walter he appears to have something of a single focus, but in this case it is on what democrats can do for the environment without much concern for what they will do to us in the process.  He’s Chairman of the Granite State Conservation voter’s alliance (GSCVA), which just happens to endorse Peter Burling for NH State Senate, one of Shaheen’s two Truth Team democrats. Russman’s GSCVA currently endorses three democrats, two for State Senate (Peter Burling and Sylvia Larson)  and one for Executive council (Deb Pignatelli).   And don’t forget he also endorses Lynch and now Shaheen.

 

Russman and his green warriors can endorse anyone they want, and I appreciate their efforts because I happen to be a big fan of the great outdoors, but I happen to think we can do the same thing without growing more government.  And claiming to be a republican on these grounds will only get you so far with other Republicans, when you insist on endorsing liberal democrats whose other policy notions are a Republicans worst nightmare.  Russman, like Walter, is not a fan of Sununu, but has an overwhelming interest in Shaheen’s left wing Green agenda, and whether they are both in step with the entire agenda or want the candidates despite it, their endorsement results in the same outcome.  Another tax and spend big government democrat in the senate.

 

Kathy Sullivan, a well known NH Dem, has some problems that need to be resolved before we can rely on her to tell the truth about anyone else.  She willfully housed a student from out of state who was illegally registered to vote in New Hampshire as a resident.  This student was also busted with a trunk full of Republican campaign signs he had been collecting, and while we cannot say for sure if Kathy has plausible deniability, given the fact that the student was doing this while residing in her home, and was registered illegally to vote, you are free to speculate amongst yourselves.  She has not admitted any wrongdoing up to this point but speculation alone should have sunk her ship, yet here we have her assigned the duty of truant officer for ‘Truth’ in Republican policy statements.

 

Peter Burling is a straight line true-blue liberal democrat from Cornish.  He appears to be exactly what he claims to be, though I heard a rumor that he can’t even make a right hand turn without making three lefts in succession. (Just a rumor)

 

So Truth be told, if ever it can be, Shaheen’s little task force is likely to keel over to port with so many left leaning ‘observers’ in the boat no matter what they call themselves.  But this should work well for the press when it comes to objectivity.  Many of them are already crowded around the left side of the policy lake so it should be that much easier for them to catch whatever the ‘Truth Team’ has to throw out.  And they can easily toss them a line if they should fall out themselves.  

 

So keep your eyes and ears open because Shaheen’s fearsome-foursome, the Truth Team for Justice is here, secret identities and all.  I don’t know if we can expect to get any truth out of them, but at this point I’m just waiting for the action figures to show up in my kids happy meals.