Is There a More Angry, Bitter Fraud than Charles Krauthammer?
If you read Krauthammer's column today--in which he analogized the repeal of the Bush stem cell policy to the experiments of Mengele--you would think that Obama had opened the door to the creation of a human Xerox machine.
There is a good reason that Obama didn't do it, and didn't need to do it. Congress has made it illegal, in a resolution that has recurred every year since 1996. Federal funds simply may not be used for this purpose. Krauthammer's article deliberately does not mention this point. (Yes, I said deliberately. His dishonesty is calculated.).
Here is the crux of it:
President Bush had restricted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to cells derived from embryos that had already been destroyed (as of his speech of Aug. 9, 2001). While I favor moving that moral line to additionally permit the use of spare fertility clinic embryos, President Obama replaced it with no line at all. He pointedly left open the creation of cloned -- and noncloned sperm-and-egg-derived -- human embryos solely for the purpose of dismemberment and use for parts.
The piece then goes on to lambast Obama's moral shortcomings in not addressing this in his new policy:
I suggested the bright line prohibiting the deliberate creation of human embryos solely for the instrumental purpose of research -- a clear violation of the categorical imperative not to make a human life (even if only a potential human life) a means rather than an end.
On this, Obama has nothing to say. He leaves it entirely to the scientists. This is more than moral abdication. It is acquiescence to the mystique of "science" and its inherent moral benevolence. How anyone as sophisticated as Obama can believe this within living memory of Mengele and Tuskegee and the fake (and coercive) South Korean stem cell research is hard to fathom.
To recap, the entire critique of Obama's position is that he's a moral monster because he didn't promise not to break the law.
Wanktastic.
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Krauthammer may not be THE most bitter and angry of all the bitter and angry Reichwing frauds. But he's certainly on the short list.
March 13, 2009 2:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
No.
March 13, 2009 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Rush?
March 13, 2009 11:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Will and Krauthammer--frequent contributors to the Washington Post Science Fiction section.
March 13, 2009 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
If you tried to hammer things with pickled cabbage wouldn't you also be bitter. (ducking)
March 13, 2009 5:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since it's March...
*whistle*
Flagrant foul. Outrageous abuse of a last name. Two shots and the ball for Cabbagemallet.
March 13, 2009 5:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Take your corned beef elsewhere.
(Don't make me break out the cheese puns. I camembert it.).
March 13, 2009 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good post Rumpole, Kraut stinks. Ever see him on cable. He is so snooty. He holds his head like some old house of lords member--no offense.
Good parsing, good links.
March 13, 2009 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reading Krauthammer is more unpleasant than using a port-o-john that is about to overflow.
March 14, 2009 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Krauthanger has one of the few recession-proof jobs in America. The right wing will always need dipshits.
March 14, 2009 12:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
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Ten dollars words for a 10 cent thought . . .
Wow ... that's a lot of big words that this toady used to convey his ten cent opinion.
Here, let me try it.
Krauthammer attempts to bamboozle the reader so as to induce cognitive dissonance and thereby further upset the homeostasis in the nation's combined psyche by perpetuating his overblown inaccurate bullshit and dangerous beliefs about anything and everything that slithers off his forked tongue.
~OGD~
March 14, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I noticed he was a little short on words beginning with the letter "e."
(SJ looks at jade, who is scratching her head in puzzlement as to what it all might mean. SJ shrugs shoulders, hopeful that Craig Crawford approves while fearful that he might in fact have just hijacked the thread.)
March 14, 2009 2:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
OGD this is priceless!!! What a list
March 14, 2009 3:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
The irony is that Krauthammer is paralyzed from a diving accident. He and others like him are some of the ones who may one day benefit enormously from stem cell research.
March 14, 2009 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink