Let’s get the obvious out of the way—the Bush administration has been one of the top worst administrations our young country has lived through. Nixon, at least, improved relations with China. The Bush administration has put its religious right-wing ideology before truth, before logic, and before the needs of the American public. Every day, the news tells us another story of how these imbeciles have made our country worse off.
The latest is another attack on science by these chunderheads. Let’s let the lede tell the story:
WASHINGTON, July 10 — Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.
I didn’t blink when I read this. No surprise really. They have their own version of reality and have no qualms on forcing it on the rest of us, facts be damned. The usual topics were verboten by the cursed Bushies: stem cells, contraception, sex education, second-hand smoke, global warming. And, as usual, there are moments of mirth at the audacity of the dimwits:
Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches.
I hope Carmona added Bush’s name as a non sequitur at the end of every page to show how retarded the order is: “So, in conclusion, Americans need to have less trans-fat in their diet…oh yes and Bush Bush Bush.”
Here is another jaw dropper:
And administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a “prominent family” that he refused to name…“I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’ ” Dr. Carmona said.
The prominent family is the Kennedy family. You couldn’t make the Bush administration look worse if you tried. Don’t help the handicapped; the Kennedys help them, and we hate the Kennedys. So much for Christian values. So much for compassionate conservatism. But those titles were all oxymorons anyway.
The Whitehouse hack has to say something, so they do their usual doublespeak:
Emily Lawrimore, a White House spokeswoman, said…“It’s disappointing to us,” Ms. Lawrimore said, “if he failed to use this position to the fullest extent in advocating for policies he thought were in the best interests of the nation.”
He failed? He failed to stand up to you I guess. How do these hacks sleep at night? I don’t know which is worse, that they have to lie publicly or they believe in the disinformation they try so desperately to spin.
The Surgeon General is a tough job. Former SGs testified that both Democratic and Republican administrations tried to influence them. I soured on Clinton when he fired Joycelyn Elders for stating that masturbation could be useful way to prevent risky sexual behaviors. Elders was simply agreeing with a statement and she was correct anyway; it is a good way. But right-wingers and religious fanatics screamed bloody murder. Clinton wussed out and asked for her resignation.
What’s most disturbing is the Bushies have no understanding of science at all:
[Carmona] described attending a meeting of top officials in which the subject of global warming was discussed. The officials concluded that global warming was a liberal cause and dismissed it, he said…“And I said to myself, ‘I realize why I’ve been invited. They want me to discuss the science because they obviously don’t understand the science,’ ” he said. “I was never invited back.”
Once the science was explained to them and it didn’t back up their narrow beliefs, they just ignored their top doctor. And the litany of bone-headed manipulations goes on and on. Here’s their stupidity on tobacco:
Dr. Carmona described being invited to testify at the government’s nine-month racketeering trial of the tobacco industry that ended in 2005. He said top administration officials discouraged him from testifying while simultaneously telling the lead government lawyer in the case that he was not competent to testify. Dr. Carmona testified anyway.
On stem cells:
“I was told to stand down and not speak about it,” he said. “It was removed from my speeches.”
On contraceptives:
“However there was already a policy in place that did not want to hear the science but wanted to preach abstinence only, but I felt that was scientifically incorrect,” he said.
On prison health care:
Because the administration does not want to spend more money on prisoners’ health care, the report has been delayed, Dr. Carmona said…“For us, the science was pretty easy,” he said. “These people go back into the community and take diseases with them.” He added, “This is not about the crime. It’s about protecting the public.”
But the Busies don’t care about the public. They are like Freud’s Id; they only see what will gratify their ideological needs. So very pathetic. The man the Bushies want to replace Carmona with is Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., a religious right-winger, who will tow the line on any issue the administration wants. God save us.
I’m usually wrong about America’s voting habits, but I’ll be very surprised if the Republicans are not kicked out en masse in the next elections. If not, then all the surgeon generals in the world couldn’t help us.
The latest is another attack on science by these chunderheads. Let’s let the lede tell the story:
WASHINGTON, July 10 — Former Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona told a Congressional panel Tuesday that top Bush administration officials repeatedly tried to weaken or suppress important public health reports because of political considerations.
I didn’t blink when I read this. No surprise really. They have their own version of reality and have no qualms on forcing it on the rest of us, facts be damned. The usual topics were verboten by the cursed Bushies: stem cells, contraception, sex education, second-hand smoke, global warming. And, as usual, there are moments of mirth at the audacity of the dimwits:
Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches.
I hope Carmona added Bush’s name as a non sequitur at the end of every page to show how retarded the order is: “So, in conclusion, Americans need to have less trans-fat in their diet…oh yes and Bush Bush Bush.”
Here is another jaw dropper:
And administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a “prominent family” that he refused to name…“I was specifically told by a senior person, ‘Why would you want to help those people?’ ” Dr. Carmona said.
The prominent family is the Kennedy family. You couldn’t make the Bush administration look worse if you tried. Don’t help the handicapped; the Kennedys help them, and we hate the Kennedys. So much for Christian values. So much for compassionate conservatism. But those titles were all oxymorons anyway.
The Whitehouse hack has to say something, so they do their usual doublespeak:
Emily Lawrimore, a White House spokeswoman, said…“It’s disappointing to us,” Ms. Lawrimore said, “if he failed to use this position to the fullest extent in advocating for policies he thought were in the best interests of the nation.”
He failed? He failed to stand up to you I guess. How do these hacks sleep at night? I don’t know which is worse, that they have to lie publicly or they believe in the disinformation they try so desperately to spin.
The Surgeon General is a tough job. Former SGs testified that both Democratic and Republican administrations tried to influence them. I soured on Clinton when he fired Joycelyn Elders for stating that masturbation could be useful way to prevent risky sexual behaviors. Elders was simply agreeing with a statement and she was correct anyway; it is a good way. But right-wingers and religious fanatics screamed bloody murder. Clinton wussed out and asked for her resignation.
What’s most disturbing is the Bushies have no understanding of science at all:
[Carmona] described attending a meeting of top officials in which the subject of global warming was discussed. The officials concluded that global warming was a liberal cause and dismissed it, he said…“And I said to myself, ‘I realize why I’ve been invited. They want me to discuss the science because they obviously don’t understand the science,’ ” he said. “I was never invited back.”
Once the science was explained to them and it didn’t back up their narrow beliefs, they just ignored their top doctor. And the litany of bone-headed manipulations goes on and on. Here’s their stupidity on tobacco:
Dr. Carmona described being invited to testify at the government’s nine-month racketeering trial of the tobacco industry that ended in 2005. He said top administration officials discouraged him from testifying while simultaneously telling the lead government lawyer in the case that he was not competent to testify. Dr. Carmona testified anyway.
On stem cells:
“I was told to stand down and not speak about it,” he said. “It was removed from my speeches.”
On contraceptives:
“However there was already a policy in place that did not want to hear the science but wanted to preach abstinence only, but I felt that was scientifically incorrect,” he said.
On prison health care:
Because the administration does not want to spend more money on prisoners’ health care, the report has been delayed, Dr. Carmona said…“For us, the science was pretty easy,” he said. “These people go back into the community and take diseases with them.” He added, “This is not about the crime. It’s about protecting the public.”
But the Busies don’t care about the public. They are like Freud’s Id; they only see what will gratify their ideological needs. So very pathetic. The man the Bushies want to replace Carmona with is Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., a religious right-winger, who will tow the line on any issue the administration wants. God save us.
I’m usually wrong about America’s voting habits, but I’ll be very surprised if the Republicans are not kicked out en masse in the next elections. If not, then all the surgeon generals in the world couldn’t help us.
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