Today, Bush vetoed something for the first time: bills passed by Congress to allow federal funding for the use of frozen, soon- to-be-discarded embryos for possible life-saving new stem cell lines. But first: Why did Bush meet with bishops yesterday? He’s not even Catholic. Why did Bush finally exercise his veto after nearly six years — on something that could save lives, as opposed to something that could harm Americans? We know of course that Bush wrote over 750 “signing statements” in order to avoid previous vetoes as his own personal method of overriding laws that Congress has passed, but now he’s really gone too far. His attempts to remake the Middle East as a welcoming reception area for his planned Rapture Party has failed, so it’s time for Bush to move on to other things that will appease his War Gods. One thing that he feels will appease his peculiar and violent gods is denying scientists the right to use frozen embryos, on their way to being discarded, of which there are thousands. The current 21 stem cell lines are tainted and showing genetic abnormalities, and are all privately owned, so they have probably passed their point of usefulness. In order to really make progress on new embryonic stem cell lines, it would be very useful to have new lines. But, Bush said no, no federal funding for this “immoral” area of science, which he imagines will lead to ‘fetus farms’ and other science-fictiony things that don’t even exist anywhere but in the twisted minds of Republicans. (They are fond of saying “slippery slope” except when it relates to things that actually exist - like the erosion of our civil rights.)

Despite their devotion to the “sanctity of life”, the Bush Morals & Values Division sees nothing wrong with collateral damage, the death penalty, preemptive wars, or letting horrible diseases that could potentially be cured by stem cell research rage on in living humans today.

You can read the account of Bush’s bizarre vetoing ceremony here, that occurred as he was surrounded by several frozen embryo children “rescued” by his Embryo Cop Brigade, yet barred from the media.

“This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our society needs to respect, so I vetoed it,” Bush said at a White House event where he was surrounded by 18 families who “adopted” frozen embryos that were not used by other couples, and then used those leftover embryos to have children.”

If this weren’t reality, it would make an interesting psycho-drama movie. Does he really think that with all the orphaned children in the world and all the foster children without permanent homes that Americans and others are going to want to resurrect frozen embryos from which to create their new children? There is something horrifyingly morbid about our president’s vision of a future populated by frozen embryo children, while already-born children remain homeless and/or sick and poor, and diseases remain uncured so that Republicans can win more elections via the Religious Right’s votes.

Other countries are ahead of us on stem cell research, not surprisingly, so in yet another area of science, the United States falls behind, hindered by its leader’s insistence on ruling via his own personal set of non-mainstream “morals” and “values” that few people share. Bush has shown himself to be extremely out of touch with the average American in the last 3 years, especially, and it’s time for him to either drastically change or for impeachment proceedings to start as soon as possible. And we know he won’t be changing.

Submitted by Shelly of Citizen Against Lies