bush* - cloning and veto

[radfringe]

commander cuckoo-bananas has said he would veto the cloning bill. If he does - it will be the first piece of legislation to be vetoed by him.

of course - Congress can override a veto, but - more likely the GOPers will just take out their rubber stamps, drink their kook-aid and say "okey dokey"

typically a piece of legislation has a pile of non-related items tacked onto it - these could be pork-barrel items or resolutions - so if congress is serious about the cloning - all they need to do is add some freebie-give-away-corporate-welfare item to bill. bush* wouldn't veto anything that benefits his buddies.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Don't you love the culture of life

they just can't get enough death?

Anything that could truly benefit humanity, Bu$h is opposed to. The whole Pro-Life thing is a facade. Everything Bush does or says causes death and destruction. War is Peace, Death is Life.

[Coastie for Truth]

2. Bush's Latest -- In Rare Threat, Bush Vows Veto of Stem Cell Bill

New York Times, Saturday, May 21, 2005

In Rare Threat, Bush Vows Veto of Stem Cell Bill

Setting up a showdown with the Republican-controlled Congress over the thorny issue of embryonic stem cell research, President Bush vowed Friday to veto a measure, now pending in the House, that would expand federal financing for the studies - an extremely rare personal threat from a president who has never exercised his veto power.

"I'm a strong supporter of adult stem cell research, of course. But I made it very clear to the Congress that the use of federal money, taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life, is - I'm against that," said Mr. Bush, speaking in the Oval Office during a brief appearance with the Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "And therefore, if the bill does that, I will veto it."

The president also expressed concerns about a report that South Korean researchers have developed a method of cloning human embryos to extract stem cells that, theoretically, could be used to develop treatments that are exact genetic matches for patients.

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Now the embryonic stem cell debate is creating divisions among Republicans, putting Mr. Bush in a difficult spot and reviving a contentious issue that dominated the early days of his presidenc


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I totally fail to see how denying medical research funds for management and cures of lethal diseses is a "culture of life" (cause some Rapture Right religious kooks equate it to "abortion"). I am a "faith based" proggressive leftie liberal - both grand dads were clergy - and I have been schooled in Scripture (not just Revelations) -- and equating stem cell research to "abortion" is heresy, blasphemy and taking the Lord's name in vain.