Posted on 06/20/2007 11:31:34 AM PDT by Smogger
WASHINGTON - Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, President Bush vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research.
Democrats, who had made the stem cell legislation a top priority when they took control of the House and Senate in January, were quick to denounce the president's decision.
"This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told the Take Back America conference of liberal activists Wednesday.
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We can give credit when it is due. Good job, Mr. President.
I’ll give him kudos for this one.
Oh and by the way, Hillary said he doesn’t care about families.
Bet she’s crying in her beer now. Good. :)
I see the Hildebeest could be counted on for an overly dramatic and short on fact rant about it. Yep - EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA needs embryonic stem cell research Hiliary. And guess what else? It’s produced NO useful results so far.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Thank you Mr. President!
When the president believes in something, he definitely believes in it and supports it. He and his conservative base are together on this one.
“I gotta run here come the illegal-immigrant-bush-is-the-devil zealots. ;-)”
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O.K. this one really made me smile.
Agreed.
Thank you for this Mr. President
We are in sync on many items. Unfortunately, he’s in sync with Teddy on a few.
Yes. This has become a line-item President. Good job on this one, President Bush. Now go and close the border.
Thank you, and God bless you, Mr. President!
His team is now engaged in experiments to do the same with human skin cells.
Presuming he's successful there would appear to be an almost infinite supply of embryonic stemcells available for any purpose and identical in genetic characteristics to any potential person needing them.
They'll also be very inexpensive and will not involve killing any babies or chopping them up for parts.
No doubt Hillary is beside herself with grief over the latter ~ she'd so much wanted to get in her own hand to do a little slicing and dicing, much like a Presidential Candidate on campaign trying out a cashregister.
Most of the stem cells they are talking about come from in vitro fertilization - a more consistent policy would be to ban in vitro fertilization.
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