Colleen Carroll Campbell would have us believe (Dissolution of bioethics council is a loss for America 7-2-09) that George W. Bush was a wonderful intellectual with no bias when he formed his Council on Bioethics.  Now that Obama has disbanded the Council whatever Obama does it will surely be biased.

 

What she doesn’t mention is that several years ago Bush removed two of the members of the Council because they disagreed with his position on stem cell research and replaced them with people who sided with him. In fact, the two people who he put on the Council at that time were part of the 10 people who gored Obama for his position on stem cell research.  So if Bush hadn’t changed the composition of the Council it is likely that only 8 of 18 instead of 10 of 18 would have been against Obama’s position.

 

Get over it Colleen.  The Republicans lost the election.  Obama can make his own Council.  He won the election.