Bush's stem-cell veto: Politics trumps science yet again

[thatcrazycajun]

I know, I know, I shouldn't be surprised. And I'm not. Six years into his Presidency and Junior Bush picks now to use his very first veto. But it still irks me tremendously. Once again, Bush demonstrates that the concern for human life shown by today's Republican Party begins at conception and ends at birth. As my partner Mary could tell you from her work at CDC, this is merely the latest example of this regime's hostility to scientific fact when it gets in the way of their political agenda. (More here.)

May your precious God damn you to everlasting hell, Mr. President. May you there spend eternity answering to the victims of disease and injury (and their families) whose potentially crucial medical treatments you just torpedoed (or at least delayed by years) for the sake of election-year pandering. Couldn't even Bill Frist, your party's majority leader in the Senate and the only M.D. in the bunch, convince you to change your pea-sized mind? Can't we impeach this twit already?

Comments

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hate to point this out, but Kitten Killer Frist diagnosed Terri Schiavo via edited videotape last year, and has said on numerous occasions that HIV can be transmitted through various forms of casual contact, such as by sweat. If I was in a medical emergency, and my choices were Dubya and Frist... well, I'd be dead, I guess.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Let's just note that the reason this is Bush's first veto is that he's had a rubberstamp Congress. If it weren't that this is a political ball thrown into the air, I'd applaud them for showing some spine. As is, at least it's an opportunity for the fall campaign.

I wonder if a Democratic Congress (should one be elected) will have enough cojones to actually impeach the war criminals?

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

Let's just note that the reason this is Bush's first veto is that he's had a rubberstamp Congress.

There are other reasons as well. For instance, rather than veto a bill, Bush would use his infamous "signing statements" instead. "Yeah, I'm signing it, but I get to decide how to interpret and enforce it... or not."

Note that the rubberstamping is a two-way street. Once Congress saw that no amount of pork and bloat would be sufficient to make Bush veto a spending bill, they piled it on even higher.