Pointing to the future

Sticking it to Congesswoman Lovejoy today. ProgressNow has a post up on Angie Paccione's stem cell research resolution:

It's too bad when the Colorado legislature has to resort to resolutions to shame the federal legislature into doing its job.

Good on ya, Angie Paccione.

Word up. The Coloradoan reports that Angie pushed through a bill supporting Congresswoman DeGette's commonsense research bill.

The U.S. Senate is taking too much time getting around to the legislation, Paccione said.

"The current lines for stem-cell research are not enough to conduct the kind of research and reach the kind of conclusions about the successful use of these stem cells in treatment and in cures," Paccione said.

"The issue is about using the modern technology and really affirming that these new technologies can help with diseases that we thought were out of reach."

Wind-up tool Guy Short's got compassion coming out of every orifice:

"The congresswoman thinks it's important to spend money where success is actually achievable," Short said. "Miss Paccione shows an incredible lack of compassion and a real misunderstanding of life-saving science when she purposely omits adult stem-cell research from the resolution."

According to John Sladeck, vice chancellor of research at the University of Colorado for Health Sciences Center, embryonic stem cells are the cell choice for biomedical scientists with respect to curing diabetes, Alzheimer's, spinal cord injuries, etc.

"There's more potential for embryonic stem cells to cure a large number of diseases," Sladeck said.

As if Congresswoman Lovejoy could come up with a halfway coherent sentence about any of this.