Connect The Dots. Will they ever do anything if not for political reasons? Health? They don't care... Approval of a Bush appointee? Sure, let's sign what needs to be signed....
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Gordon Watts is mad as hell about funding cuts, and blaming petty partisan politics:
As far as I can tell, here is what happened:
Congress just about finishes the omnibus spending bill. [Snark: exactly how late was this!?]
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We already knew from former Surgeon General Carmona's testimony that this was happening, but now the WaPo brings us
a specific example of science being squelched by a political appointee. It's not only inappropriate, but just despicable.
A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans…
Remember the Hitler Zombie? He doesn't show up all that much anymore. The reason is not because a lot of brain dead Nazi analogies aren't being used to demonize political opponents. In fact, If I had a mind to, I could probably populate this blog with nothing other than people whose brains have…
Of late president Obama has taken a little bit of heat for his frequent (and mostly male) golf outings. Before him, president Bush took the same sort of heat for his golf and vacations. If you were willing to dig a bit through the news archives, I'd bet you could find similar tut-tutting about…
Well - a little late, but I just had to comment. I don't get the negative tone here. Looking at this story I think it is showing politics actually working - somebody actually being forced to do something realistic by political pressure rather than babbling about some ficticious reality. The government "plays with peoples lives" every day in thousands of ways. The FDA is a policy agency so of course politics will be involved and I'm glad. I think a lot of the problems of this administration have been because they aren't playing politics, but rather acting as if they have the true way so don't need to get into the sausage grinder and work things out.
Yes, but they are not doing anything realistic, they are just pretending.
Oh Oh... we are at multi-level pretending now, Yikes I think we need some more dimensions to describe this :-)