GOP Lab Coat Laugh-fest

[J.E.D]

This is grand. After stories come out about children being turned away from cancer treatment because of the gov't shutdown, House Republicans stage a photo-op in lab coats...hilarity and hypocrisy ensue.

House GOP Pleads For Funding For Kids With Cancer After Canceling Research For Kids With Cancer

The politics behind the government shutdown reached a new level of absurdity on Thursday as a group of conservative House Republicans -- the same ones refusing to fund the government unless Obamacare is delayed or defunded -- pleaded with Democrats to pass a bill only funding services for children with cancer.

Dressed in lab coats, members of the Republican Doctors Caucus made the case that pediatric cancer research trials at the National Institutes of Health deserve to be funded, even if the rest of the government is not.

For all their talk that NIH funding should be restored in this case, House Republicans have done a terrible job funding the agency in recent years.

In 2010, Cantor himself proposed a $1.3 billion cut to NIH. The 2011 House Republican budget also sought to cut $1.6 billion from the agency. In House Republicans' 2013 budget proposal put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), cuts to the agency's budget approached 20 percent.

Still, when asked Thursday about the bill to restore funding to the NIH, Cantor said he's "been insistent on making as a priority funding for the NIH, and specifically funding for pediatric medical research."

 

[Sarah G]

This is grand. After stories come out about children being turned away from cancer treatment because of the gov't shutdown, House Republicans stage a photo-op in lab coats...hilarity and hypocrisy ensue.

House GOP Pleads For Funding For Kids With Cancer After Canceling Research For Kids With Cancer

The politics behind the government shutdown reached a new level of absurdity on Thursday as a group of conservative House Republicans -- the same ones refusing to fund the government unless Obamacare is delayed or defunded -- pleaded with Democrats to pass a bill only funding services for children with cancer.

Dressed in lab coats, members of the Republican Doctors Caucus made the case that pediatric cancer research trials at the National Institutes of Health deserve to be funded, even if the rest of the government is not.

For all their talk that NIH funding should be restored in this case, House Republicans have done a terrible job funding the agency in recent years.

In 2010, Cantor himself proposed a $1.3 billion cut to NIH. The 2011 House Republican budget also sought to cut $1.6 billion from the agency. In House Republicans' 2013 budget proposal put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), cuts to the agency's budget approached 20 percent.

Still, when asked Thursday about the bill to restore funding to the NIH, Cantor said he's "been insistent on making as a priority funding for the NIH, and specifically funding for pediatric medical research."

Oh my god. Was there some kind of joke attached to that?

 

[BreezeWood]

In 2010, Cantor himself proposed a $1.3 billion cut to NIH. The 2011 House Republican budget also sought to cut $1.6 billion from the agency. In House Republicans' 2013 budget proposal put forward by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), cuts to the agency's budget approached 20 percent.

In 2010, Cantor himself proposed a $1.3 billion cut to NIH.


and presumably Cantor believes their opinions on Health Care Reform are the one's the American people are clamoring for to "rewrite" the ACA ... enough so to shut down the entire gov't just for that purpose.

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[Antares]

"Stories" came out....reported by MSNBC...get a life dipshit.

 

[idb]

I thought that the Republicans believed that the government cocked up everything it touches.
Why don't they leave research into child cancer to the private sector?
It would be safer for the kids (don't want any of those death panels getting near them), it would allow entrepeneurs to make money out of the research as God intended, it shrinks government and gets them out of using federal money to pick winners...why should dying kids have greater priority than anyone else.
Leave it to the free market and everyone wins.

 

[tinydancer]

Bigger scandal is Harry Reid comparing a cancer stricken child's plight during the shutdown to 1100 furloughed workers.

Reid's true evil inner soul really comes out in this quote:

'Why would we want to do that?': Harry Reid dismisses funding children's cancer research separately from the rest of government

The U.S. Senate's leading Democrat found himself in embarrassingly hot water Wednesday, after dismissing the idea of funding children's cancer research through the government shutdown.

'If you can help one child, why won't you do it?' asked CNN reporter Dana Bash.

'Why, why, why would we want to do that?' countered Reid.

'I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force Base that are sitting home' because of government employee furloughs, he told Bash and a roomful of other journalists.

'They have – they have a few problems of their own.'

'Why would we want to do that?': Harry Reid dismisses funding children's cancer research separately from the rest of government | Mail Online

 

[J.E.D]

"Stories" came out....reported by MSNBC...get a life dipshit.

Right. Only MSNBC has reported on it. You should try googling something before opening your mouth.


Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is blaming Republicans for the National Institutes of Health turning away cancer patients.

The Wall Street Journal: At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed. One result: director Francis Collins said about 200 patients who otherwise would be admitted to the NIH Clinical Center into clinical trials each week will be turned away. This includes about 30 children, most of them cancer patients, he said.

The Washington Post: As long as the government is shut down, the National Institutes of Health will turn away roughly 200 patients each week from its clinical research center, including children with cancer.

The Atlantic: House Republicans have failed to stop Obamacare from going into effect so far, but sadly and ironically, their actions have prevented hundreds of people from getting healthcare from just one clinic.


You, sir, are a moron.