"The First President to Fund Stem Cell Research": Comeback

[Norquist Nemesis]

(from 8/15/04 WaPo)
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It is true indeed that Bush's predecessors, from George Washington to Bill Clinton, failed to fund embryonic stem cell research. Even Abraham Lincoln. Not a penny for stem-cell research from any of them. Historians believe this might have been because it didn't exist yet. But that's just a guess.

George Bush gave this nascent research a tiny sliver of money and piled on a smothering load of restrictions. As Laura Bush did not note, that makes Bush the only president ever to authorize federal rules against stem cell research.
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:)

[cthrumatrix]

1. stem cells (and thier potential) were not even discovered until 1998

so bush is the only preseident who has had an opportunity.

That's the comeback.

[phish420]

2. Or...he is the first President to...

UNDERFUND stem cell research, just as he has underfunded all his other programs, yet still has managed to put us farther in debt than ever before.

[pansypoo53219]

3. that

is an even better response.

win one for the superman.