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Disgusting: Specter tries to score political points off of Jack Kemp’s death
May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Arlen Specter’s officially been a Democrat for less than a week, and yet he’s already managed to master one of the great propaganda points of the Democratic Party: blame Republicans for people dying from natural causes.
Specter claims that “Jack Kemp would be alive today” had we only fully funded Nixon’s “war on cancer.”
In the best tradition of the N.I.C.E., Specter seems to be under the impression that if only we spend more money, we could pretty much eliminate death itself. Uh huh. And as Ed Morrissey points out, Specter is simply lying. I know, I’m shocked as well.
It’s also a grotesque lie. During Republican control of Congress, federal spending on health research and regulation increased 46% after inflation, from $49 billion a year to $72 billion a year, or about 7% increase each year. That’s almost the same rate of increase as Defense spending got in the same period (48%), when we actually had a real war on our hands, and not a political contrivance for excusing federal spending.
And yet it’s the right that is supposedly “at war with science,” and is guilty of playing politics with medical research. No, we’re just not big believers in the Dr. Frankenstein ethics of the left.