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Politicizing Science
An anonymous reader writes: "The Washington Post has a story about the government's efforts to remove independent scientific review boards and replace them with officials that match the views of administration. This includes careless elimination of life-saving safety regulations in gene-therapy to help specific business interests and hiring based on political views such as stem cell research and cloning. Is this wrong? Or do those with power get to do whatever they want?"
He's created a real bond with the American people. Unlike Clinton, who created a morbid fascination with his goings on, people really try Pres. Bush. While your self-appointed intellectuals may hate him (because Clinton was a brilliant man, however flawed, and Bush is simply above-average), the American people have a leader that they believe it. This is the first President since Reagan that the people really believe in.
If he said that they were going to make decisions without turning it over to "eggheads", they'd get a lot of support.
The republican base LOVES this president. And the swing voters in middle America love this president.
He will be reelected regardless of what the urban intellectual elites think.
Alex
Oh yeah. There you go again, bringing logic into the argument. This is manifestly unfair, since the politics of Bush and the Republicans is the politics of non-sequitor and paranoia. How dare you try to analyze it logically? We live in Bizarro world with Bizarro president. Why don't you just get with the program? Or are you some kind of terrorist?
That is all.