Backlash against republicans. Why does this tend to happen in second terms . Think about when a brandnew president is elected and you are young enough to remember in 2009 , whether you were democrat or republican, liberal, moderate, conservative, there was a real curiosity how this new president is going to do and howxcitement, passion, is this guy going to do . Y people wanted the country to do well after tough times, and that is fairly typical when a new president is elected. But over time, the novelty wears for myd over time decisions are made, tough, governing decisions are made that tend to tick people off, and that the fresh, new ideas and to dissipate some. The team that elected the president lycian really, they generally go off and make money. So they have the cteam on the field. The final thing is chickens come home to roost, things that you said or did in the first term come back to you, and they will thingsou on your ass, like that come back to haunt you in the second term.
Rosalynn carter at 9 00 on c span. Today, joined us for more on the q a series. Is yuval levin. There is a look at some cell research. Issues01 one of the big that the new president faced was the question of whether and how the federal government should fund embryonic still stem research. The question was whether it was moral it in the promise or potential of it to spend public money on that kind of research. The president made a decision in which he was advised that said you could spend money on lines that are it existed at that point, but not on new ones. Of announcingrse that decision, he said these kinds of issues will stay with us. And we need help in thinking about them. He called together a group of 18 scholars, almost all of them academics who would come together several times per year to consider a challenging environmental question that has some public wallace the implication and provide information in terms of publication and reports. Cloning,e a report on stem cell research