Suddenly, George Bush Grows a Pair
Throughout his presidency, President Bush has signed bill-after-bill that seemed to fly in the face of conservative politics. There's a general sense of disappointment that he hasn't been willing to take a stand on any issue other than terrorism.
Well, today the president found his veto pen for the first time. In doing so, I think he showed us just what he's all about. Today, he said to the world, "you may trample my conservatism, but don't you dare mess with my Christian values." Never mind sticking to your guns about economic policy, we've got stem cells to save.
In case you're wondering where I stand on stem cell research: in general, I support extreme measures in developing science and technology. For example, I find it tragic that the FDA takes ten years to approve a drug that could save 10,000 lives in that time, just in case it might kill a few early test subjects who had one foot in the grave anyway. Regarding stem cells, the opponents haven't really made it clear to me what they're afraid of.
It all seems to boil down to the abortion debate. Are they seriously afraid that there's going to be some huge black market abortion boom? In this country? I must be from Missouri or something.
Well, today the president found his veto pen for the first time. In doing so, I think he showed us just what he's all about. Today, he said to the world, "you may trample my conservatism, but don't you dare mess with my Christian values." Never mind sticking to your guns about economic policy, we've got stem cells to save.
In case you're wondering where I stand on stem cell research: in general, I support extreme measures in developing science and technology. For example, I find it tragic that the FDA takes ten years to approve a drug that could save 10,000 lives in that time, just in case it might kill a few early test subjects who had one foot in the grave anyway. Regarding stem cells, the opponents haven't really made it clear to me what they're afraid of.
It all seems to boil down to the abortion debate. Are they seriously afraid that there's going to be some huge black market abortion boom? In this country? I must be from Missouri or something.
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I don't think that it is the doctors and researchers who are advocating fetal stem cell research.
It is the left wing Pro Abortion people who are touting the miracles that will come of fetal stem cell research.
Why, because they want Abortion to be thought of as just another procedure.
They don't want to hear about what could have been.
Today it is legal in every state to have an abortion.
I do think that it is hypocritical, that the same people who scream bloody murder when a soldier dies in Iraq, think nothing of destroying a human embryo, in or out of the womb.
I will not stand in the way of anyone going into an abortion clinic.
We have to abide by even the laws that we don't like.
It is also legal to do stem cell research.
What Congress tryed to do is spend taxpayers dollars on fetal stem cell research.
Thank goodness George Bush Vetoed the Bill.
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Does GW have a formal position on Gravity or Heliocentrism? I'm just wondering what he considers to be good science.
Grumps - you make absolute ZERO sense. It is not the research that he vetoed, it was the FEDERAL FUNDING for the research that he vetoed.
Sucks to be Grumps right now.
Not really; it's given BDS sufferers like Grumps another symptom to endlessly navel-gaze, sympathize with other sufferers, and wail about the pain!
I don't have a problem with the "there goes that knuckle-draggin' cousin-datin' white-trash Harvard-C-student momma's-boy election thief again" mantra, but I do object to the deliberate misconstruction of what Bush vetoed.
And it wasn't ESC research.
More than that, clint, didn't he just veto using federal funding for NEW embryoic stem cell research, only?
People like grumps make me feel like herding lemmings to prevent breeding.
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