Mary Lundby Is Illiterate
February 13th, 2007 at 07:57am Geraldine
Mary Lundby, the Brutus to Stew Iverson’s Caesar, showed that she had the same ability to read English as her noble Roman predecessor the other day when she said that SF 115, the bill before the Iowa State Senate to allow stem cell research, would allow human cloning. In fact, she went even further than that;
“I’ve seen the deterioration of things that we consider taboo. Gratuitous violence on television and in video games. If you watch any of the prime time sitcoms, the double entendre has new meaning in the fact that it shows up in every other sentence. I just think Iowans are going to draw the line at the process of human cloning.”
Apparently, the reason for stem cell research was Tipper Gore’s failure twenty years ago and it’s just one slippery slope from Darling Nikki to curing Parkinson’s.
Lundby, along with other Republican all stars like David Hartsuch, are trying conflate stem cell research with human cloning. If they had bothered to read the bill, rather than talking points written by the Iowa Christian Alliance, they would have noticed that the bill explicitly bans human cloning and states that one of the purposes of the bill is “to prohibit human reproductive cloning.” It further goes on to explictly define human reproductive cloning as “human asexual reproduction, using somatic cell nuclear transfer, for implantation or attempted implantation into a woman’s uterus or substitute for a woman’s uterus. ‘Human reproductive cloning’ does not include somatic cell nuclear transfer performed for the purpose of creating embryonic stem cells.” It seems fair enough but you would think from Mary Lundby’s language that Chet Culver was using the proposed state grant for stem cell research to create something out of Blade Runner in Iowa City.
In reality, the Republican caucus in the State Senate, and especially a vulnerable moderate like Mary Lundby, is beholden to the far right wing elements in the Republican Party of Iowa like the Iowa Christian Alliance (in fact, it’s fair say that, to a large extent, the entire RPI is beholden to the Iowa Christian Alliance ) and the right wingers are taking their pound of flesh on this issue. Bill Dotzler gets it right when he says the Republican opposition is based on “politics and semantics, not the issues.” Although adult illiteracy is embarassing, Mary Lundby using it to hide a problem far worse, the fact that she’s playing politics with people’s lives.
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6 Comments Add your own
1. T.M. Lindsey | February 13th, 2007 at 9:11 am
“…the double entendre has new meaning in the fact that it shows up in every other sentence.”
So would this be a double-secret entendre???
So on the literal level, when Lundby says she’s “seen the deteriation of things we consider taboo” she’s concened that our time-honored taboos are deterioating?
Or is she using a loosely-veiled double entendre to expose her deepest desires and hidden intentions? Ah yes, Mary, the pen’s proverbial prowess is mightier than the sword’s unweilding power…
Or is she using a double-secret entendre to mask the taboo and perpetual decay of proper grammar usage?
2. Calling BS on the stem ce&hellip | February 13th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
[…] debated in committee yesterday — and passed out of committee — last week, as quoted here by Iowa Progress. Read their post for more, but its clear that Republicans at both the national and state level are […]
3. Stem cell bill passes the&hellip | February 14th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
[…] Register notes in their story, the critics claimed the bill would legalize cloning. As the folks at Iowa Progress have already pointed out, that is pure bullshit. If the Democrats were persuaded by that type of argument, I suggest Senator […]
4. Dusty | February 15th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Somatic cell nuclear transfer is cloning so this bill directly creates a new class of cloning, “Human reproductive cloning”, and indirectly another, “Human nonreproductive cloning”. The bill does prohibits the former but allows for the latter which in effect lifts the ban of all cloning signed into law by Gov. Vilsack in 2002.
5. B Greening | February 18th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
All of your own semantics are fine but CLONING is CLONING whether you want to state the HUMAN cloning is not REPRODUCTIVE cloning or not. Human cells (eggs & sperm) are used adn therefore it is HUMAN cloning. Implantation makes it reproductive but even PRIOR to implantation, a human embryo is created and then will be destroyed in the vain name of science! Shame on IOWA if this bill is passed.
6. Iowa Progress » Sta&hellip | April 23rd, 2008 at 4:41 am
[…] Hatch, who represents Fallon’s former district and has to kowtow to Fallon’s base and Mary Lundby, the former Republican leader in the Senate who openly displayed her contempt for organized labor […]
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