What's Norm been up to?
So what has Norm been up to lately? Well, he's sponsoring a stem-cell research bill that goes against the will of Bush. Good job for him, but it would be nice if he wouldn't bring "pro-life" or "pro-choice" into it. Note to wingnuts: stem-cell research has nothing to do with abortion. Also, emergency contraception has nothing to do with abortion either; please pay attention, Wisconsin.
Norm also voted for CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement. However, this has pissed off sugar beet farmers in the state, and represents yet another flip-flop for him: he said that he would not vote for it unless "substantial protections" were included for farmers. Well, they weren't, but that didn't stop him from saying the bill was good enough.
Now I happen to agree with his vote. Yes to CAFTA and no to all agricultural subsidies, I say. Farmers can sink or swim in a global market like everybody else. However, I do not represent an agricultural state in the Senate, so my opinions really don't matter. He's going to get hurt politically by these actions.
posted by MN Politics Guru @ 19:22
3 Comments:
Coleman's bill doesn't really "break" from Bush at all. All it will do is get the bill below the 60 mark it needs to pass. He's doing Bush a favor and Frist appears to have bought into it today.
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The only difference between Coleman's position and Bush's is the date at which research opportunities get cut off. Bush put the date at August 9, 2001. Coleman would bump it up to whatever date his bill is signed. From a scientific and ethical standpoint, this makes no sense. If research was worth doing between 2001 and now, why isn't it worth doing from now on? What's changed?
I disagree with you on CAFTA. There are so many giveaways to domestic big business in there that have nothing to do with free trade, principled free-traders can vote against this with a clean conscience. Sugar gets all the attention, since it's a domestic industry, but even more people in Central America will suffer from the patent extensions in CAFTA that keep cheap generic drugs off the markets. Those people can't afford many lobbyists on Capitol Hill, though, and no, they can't vote here and not many U.S. citizens will ever have personal contact with them, so not many people notice. But their lives should be taken into account.
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