David is still writing on the board but they have now gone transparent. The show is really losing it's edge. There is a quality of sameness now with all the episodes. The anti-US stance is not very attractive either. Yes, the whole business of not providing Federal Funds for stem cell research is an issue but it could have been done if private enterprise had taken up the challenge. The character development is really slow, and the stuff with Carolines personal issues really dont add much depth. Will stick with it a while longer but not sure I'll make it through to the end since the characters are now really starting to get on my nerves.

Americans are sheep willing to follow their president over the cliff???I don't think so. President Bush's actions were some of the most contentious in the nations history. We didn't follow him over the cliff- we shoved him and his party over the cliff. In our zeal to get the bad taste out of our mouth, elected a weak president without the political will to honor our security commitments abroad or get rid of the most odious aspects of Bush's presidency.The political grandstanding does not help a show that has slipped into cliche and boorishness. Sanstrom should have been fired and is probably liable for sexual harassment.No signs of life here. Stick a fork in it, this piece of Canadian crap is done.

because the law meant that no federal money could be spent so if a petri dish was bought with federal money it could not be used or a person supported with federal funds could not work or offer help on the project, any equipment (computers, testing materials) could not be used on stem cell research if federal funds were used (of if they were suspected to have been used). So while not Bush did not ban research he did make it almost impossible to be done.

in response to funkfingerg. Bush did not ban fetal stem cell research in America. He banned federal funding of it. I cannot understand why people continue to make this mistake.

Let me start off by saying I am an American. What you are seeing is a quite realistic display of our country's antics. If we have money invested in multinational ventures our politicians will do what ever is necessary to keep their electorate (in this case the conservative left-wing) happy. Forgive me for saying so, but you would probably not have to ask such questions if you were to pay a bit more attention to what our country does in the international community. Its called the "two-level game", in short.. Politicians have to make decisions that effect the people in our country and the people in other countries, and thus you see both levels of the game, our fellow citizens and the other people on the planet who's these politicians' decisions affect. The decisions you see in this show that the show satires is a very real one. The United States Government, at the time this show was recorded, under the power of George W. Bush banned fetal stem cell research in America. He did so because the conservative left-wing insisted that it was a human life and that we didn't have the right to as they put it "play God". The process would have done nothing, but save lives. It could have been regulated and controlled, but instead it was banned all together setting the United States medical industry years behind their foreign contemporaries. The procedure used to acquire fetal stem cells requires the removal of the gonad cells from aborted fetuses. The bashing, as you put it, could have mimicked an actual event. Left wing conservative religious types make up a very wealthy voter base, and their support goes along way to win elections, and the Republicans depend upon these conservatives for support during election time. And so you can see that the decisions made by our country's leaders are often made to appease and please the politician's electorate in hopes of being re-elected. Not because it makes sense anywhere outside of that.