July 20th, 2006 by Atomictumor
As some sort of cosmic judgement, GWB ends up getting Parkinson’s, or Alzheimer’s, or nerve damage, or one of the many things that might one day be cureable with the research that he has hamstrung today.
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I try to stay optimistic as we round the bend on year 6 of his finger on the button, but its hard to. We have the end of the world brewing in so many different pots that sometimes I just have to either hide under the covers or get drunk and watch TV.
Good thing we’ve got boy band covers of Al Green songs on NBC.
July 20th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
I have to believe that Congress will override his veto, or at least come up with something similar that can garner the necessary votes for an override. But then, I’m a hopeless optimist.
Those who profess a reverence for the “sanctity of life” simply can’t be allowed to pretend that existing life — people who were already born — don’t matter. They (we) do.
Nearly everyone knows someone whose life could be dramatically changed or saved if only our federal government would recognize the tremendous benefit that could be realized here.
July 20th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
I’m afraid that the house was 51 votes short of that veto, NM. Sucks, doesn’t it?
July 20th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
“Those who profess a reverence for the “sanctity of life†simply can’t be allowed to pretend that existing life — people who were already born — don’t matter. They (we) do.”
You misrepresent the “right-to-life” position, Netmom.
The opponents of embryonic stem cell research believe that the rights of blastocyst-Americans are the same as those of post-natal citizens. They don’t pretend that we “don’t matter.” They pretend that blastocysts matter just as much as we do and are entitled to the same Constitutional protections that we are.
I find it curious, though, that they don’t oppose IVF for the same reason. A necessary consequence of the IVF industry is that hundreds of thousands of embryos have been produced that will never be implanted and allowed to develop to birth. Eventually, these embryos will be destroyed. So most embryos created by IVF are created to be “killed.” Why is it better to “murder” blastocyst-Americans by dumping them in the trash than to “murder” them to relieve the suffering of others.
Of course, I don’t believe that destroying human embryos is murder. But if one did, one would have to oppose IVF.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Good to see you again Joel, and I couldn’t agree more with you.
July 20th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
GWB’s ignorance of science is truly a case of shock and awe.
July 21st, 2006 at 8:47 am
It all boils down to him pandering to the only base he still has. The freak base.
July 21st, 2006 at 8:47 am
No, not the freak base, that’d be us. The mindless automaton fundie base.