(2007-10-05) — Criticized by Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for waging a “war on science” by limiting taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research and refusing to sign the Kyoto protocol on climate change, President George Bush today vowed to “win that war too.”
“When we go to war,” said Mr. Bush. “We go to liberate the oppressed from tyrants, to protect the world from their dark dreams of empire, and to guard our own liberty here at home.”
The president said he would “stand down” in his war on science, when science “stands up for the rights of all people, especially those folks in the womb who can’t defend themselves.”
He also said he’s committed to protecting the American taxpayer from “zealous academics whose research is so important to society that no one but government would voluntarily fund it, and Congress only does so because they’re spending someone else’s money.”
Mr. Bush said his war on science “includes combating the coalition of climate change — pandering politicians, cry-baby celebrities and speculative scientists who have formed an axis of snivel.”
“They seek to impose unproven solutions at great expense on individuals and business, with no reasonable expectation of a measurable benefit to society,” the president said.
“When Sen. Clinton talks about my war on science,” Mr. Bush said, “Let me just say this: I’m in. And I’m in to win.”
25 responses so far ↓
1 camojack // Oct 5, 2007 at 6:53 am
Yeah!!!
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 6:53 am
God Bless America
3 antodav // Oct 5, 2007 at 7:06 am
Eew, did he have to quote Fred Thompson?! No thanks, Scott…
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 7:43 am
Overheard at a recent Clinton/Soros/Socialist confabulation:
“I was not wearing an American Flag lapel pin when not wearing an American Flag lapel pin wasn’t cool.”
5 Hawkeye // Oct 5, 2007 at 7:55 am
axis of snivel…
Hahahahaha! Love it.
6 boberinyetagain // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:09 am
I’m sure he means it
Good stuff Scott!
7 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:17 am
“…..By ignoring and manipulating science, the Bush administration is letting our economic competitors get an edge,” Clinton said.
Is it scientifically possible to “ignore” and “manipulate” something simultaneously?
Anyway, this is all just a not-so-well-veiled shot at Bible-Thumping Christians and “religion” in general because they (yes, the Clinton/Soros/Socialist cabal) believe their own fairy-tale mythology which depicts Almighty God as not IN CONTROL of Science.
8 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:25 am
Full Disclosure:
I am proud to be a Bible-Thumper.
9 boberinyetagain // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:32 am
God presumably gave us the means and the knowledge to put those means to use. Man, by sheer definition is no more capable of doing anything “unnatural” than a snail. Whatever either thing does is completely “natural”.
10 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 8:32 am
When are we going to bring home our troops from the Science wars? Watch out for the phoney pony soldiers who claim to know how to split an atom but flunked out of 9th grade physical science.
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12 Maggie // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:00 am
Call it the War of Con-Science.
13 random // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:12 am
Evil Scientists everywhere are rubbing thier hands with glee, slobbering all over themselves. Oh opps, my bad- it’s just the Democrat Party again.
14 Libby Gone // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:13 am
Boberin,
That comment leave alot of lee-way.
Just as long as Government allows me to continue to dig up and reassemble corpses to better mankind, I am fine with it.
-Dr. Libbystein
15 boberinyetagain // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:30 am
Libby, good point. I suppose we need to pay attention to laws and such but even they are merely constructs, rather arbitrary in many instances.
Keep digging!
16 random // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:36 am
Hillary failed the DC Bar Exam…
17 random // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:38 am
Hey ya Libby Gone. You were gone for a time here and now yer back with regularity. Good to see ya. I still have an old e-mail address. Hope to get back in touch with ya ‘gin. But until then, good to see ya.
18 da Bunny // Oct 5, 2007 at 11:14 am
“The president said he would “stand down” in his war on science, when science “stands up for the rights of all people, especially those folks in the womb who can’t defend themselves.”
Amen to that!!
““They seek to impose unproven solutions at great expense on individuals and business, with no reasonable expectation of a measurable benefit to society,”
And yet the “axis of snivel” continue in their attempted tyranny…
The entire article is just brilliant, Scott!!
19 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:58 pm
push
20 Darthmeister // Oct 5, 2007 at 1:25 pm
I guess Hillary only wants to perpetuate the war on the most innocent of humankind. Wasn’t it the Nazis that justified using human beings (in their case, Jews) for their medical experiments? Freakin’ liberal fascists.
NEWS ALERT:
From Kenneth Timmerman’s new book, “Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender”:
Some have called it the CIA’s greatest covert operation of all time.
It involved deep penetration of a hostile regime by planting a network of agents at key crossroads of power, where they could steal secrets and steer policy by planting disinformation, cooking intelligence, provocation, and outright lies.
It involved sophisticated political sabotage operations, aimed at making regime leaders doubt their own judgment and question the support of their subordinates.
It involved the financing, training, and equipping of effective opposition forces, who could challenge the regime openly and through covert operations.
The scope was breathtaking, say insiders who had personal knowledge of the CIA effort. All the skills learned by the U.S. intelligence community during the fifty years of the Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union were in play, from active measures aimed at planting disinformation through cutouts and an eager media, to maskirovka-strategic deception. … Its goal was nothing less than to topple the regime in power, by discrediting its rulers.
Many Americans believe this was the CIA’s goal during the 1990s, when the Agency had “boots on the ground” in northern Iraq, working with Iraqi opponents of Saddam Hussein. Most patriotic Americans probably hope that the CIA today has such an operation to overthrow the mullahs in Tehran, or North Korean dictator Kim John Il.
But the target of this vast, sophisticated CIA operation was none of them.
It was America’s 43rd President, George W. Bush.
21 The Great Santini // Oct 5, 2007 at 3:00 pm
“…axis of snivel”?
Mu-wah…mu-wah. muwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Now, that’s a coffee-snorter.
22 everthink // Oct 5, 2007 at 3:44 pm
It is for some to lead the charge from their living rooms. It is theirs to pick the fights and hurl insults. These should be recognized as the “Mouth Captains” they truly are. For them no hardship is too great for the other fellow. No risk is too great for someone else to take. No loss is too much for others to bear.
Those who never serve will be the last to surrender.
ET
23 prettyold // Oct 5, 2007 at 7:34 pm
But ,ET wouldn’t we be more like “Finger Captains?”
You are right about the surrender ,though ,these old bones will be sitting by my barricaded window ,with my loaded double-barreled shotgun ready to fire.
24 Fred Sinclair // Oct 5, 2007 at 9:44 pm
random #16 - there’s an error there someplace - everybody knows it’s impossible to fail that exam - even those who are not smarter than a 5th grader.
Heirborn Ranger
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