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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Jul 30, 2006 10:35pm |
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| News Date | Sunday, July 30, 2006 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | On the morning after George W. Bush signed his first ever veto, effectively denying millions of Americans real hope that cures may be found for any number of debilitating and terminal diseases, Congressman Jay Inslee from Washington's 1st CD, made the following speech from the floor of the United States House of Representatives. I was watching C-Span that day (awaiting the ill-fated vote on the OFTA). I was so moved by the genuine passion in Inslee's delivery of his short remarks that I immediately phoned his office in DC to express my appreciation and request a copy of what he had said. I received those remarks in the mail today and am happy to share them with you now. The next time someone bemoans the lack of passion in our elected officials, you might point them toward these words:
"Mr. Speaker, when I voted to override President Bush’s veto of stem cell research, I was thinking of ex-Governor Booth Gardner of Washington State. I saw Governor Gardner in the Sea-Tac Airport Monday as I was flying back here. He was flying to San Francisco for advanced treatment for Parkinson’s, a disease he has been battling for some time with great courage and grace.
And yet this promising research, we have a President who decided he is not going to let Americans have because he, from his exalted realm on Pennsylvania Avenue, has taken it upon himself to dictate to Americans what our morals should be.
Let me suggest that the President who started the war in Iraq based on false information, the President that mishandled Hurricane Katrina relief, the President who has created the largest deficit in the history of the solar system, is not entitled by any law, religion, morality, ethics or common sense to dictate to the American people one sense of morality, much less any others.
It was wrong for him to deny Booth Gardner treatment, it was wrong for him to take it away from millions of Americans." |
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