[Strangler Lewis]

I agree with GC. She may have started by talking about earmarks, but the tone of her reference to fruit fly research was clearly anti-scientific, implying it's a waste of money to give money to pointy-headed scientists so that they can study useless things. Given her promises to spend money on autism and special needs children (as an exception to McCain's spending freeze), the comeback about autism research is a good one, though not the only one.