Mike Dunford has the details, based on Congressional Quarterly's reporting. There are apparently multiple senators blocking two of Obama's key science appointees from taking their posts. This is outrageous--a totally new kind of "war on science"--and we need a full court press. Details here.
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Atlas at the Rockefeller Plaza. More blogger pics below.
A bunch of Sciblings meeting at the Seed offices in New York City on Friday Afternoon....updated with a couple of more pictures and links....(several more people came late, after my batteries died...)
This week's Casual Fridays study plays off a post written by Mike Dunford. The question is, how are political attitudes affected by legal knowledge? Do you let the law get in the way of a political position, or do political goals trump legal ones?
What are the reasons for the holds on the two science advisor nominees?
Looks like Senator Menendez is putting his own ideology ahead of what's best for the country and his own party (again).
He played a crass political game to put a hold on scientific advisers and now he's playing the same game on the Omnibus spending bill.
Menendez is looking more like NJ's very own version of Joe Lieberman every day.
"The most stinging defection: Reidâs own senatorial campaign committee chairman, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J), who told Democratic leaders that heâd be voting ânoâ over his objections to the House billâs easing of the embargo against Cuba."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19771.html