"My First Vito"

President Poopypants is dedicating this weekend to pick out which color crayon he'll use to veto the impending stem cell research bill, sure to be passed by the Republican-held House and Senate. This is new territory for the president. While unprecedented spending bills and freedom-sucking security measures scurry across the desk unchallenged, he has vowed to place his own narrow agenda ahead of scientific progress and veto any legislation aiming to expand embryonic stem cell research.

Here are his comments on the matter yesterday:

President Bush: (ummm) I've made my position very clear on (uh) embryonic stem cells. I'm a strong supporter (umm) of adult stem cell research, (uh, uh uh,um) of course. But I have made it very clear to the Congress that the (uh) use of federal money, (uhhhh, uhhh, um) taxpayers' money, to promote science which destroys life in order to save life is - I'm against that. And therefore, (uhm) if the bill does that, I will veto it".

Here's an inarticulate twit that is going to excercise executive power to hinder scientific progress. The ironic part is, didn't Bush predicate the entire invasion and occupation of Iraq as a means to use billions of taxpayer dollars to destroy life in order to save it? Afterall, they have WMD, and they will use them.

Two facts remain evident. First, stem cell technology is here and the Christian, conservative numbnuts are not going to stop it. Period. Asian laboratories will realize benefits from stem cell research and the USA will continue to fall behind in technology. Second, when President Bush, his family, or "good Christians" in general need the therapies realized via stem cell research to stay alive, they will be in a charted jet to Seoul to get it. Just watch. When the chips are down they'll chug a glass of embryos like they were on Fear Factor if it means saving their own asses.

Allowing politicians to make decisions about science should scare you senseless. These are people that can't balance a checkbook-- how can they make reasonable decisions about intricate medical science that will ultimately affect the quality and duration of your life?