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President Finds His Veto Pen (embryo stem cell research)

Posted on 07/19/2006 11:14:14 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe

WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush has issued the first veto of his presidency, rejecting a bill to expand federal research on stem cells obtained from embryos.


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To: Lunatic Fringe

While I wish he had used his veto many times over before on a LOT of things, I have no problem with the federal government not funding stem cell research.

Leave it to the private sector and private funds.

But I do wish he had used it many times before to stop federal funding bills.


21 posted on 07/19/2006 11:20:54 AM PDT by eyespysomething (How do I set a laser printer to stun?)
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To: Jedidah

Impressive!


22 posted on 07/19/2006 11:20:55 AM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

We love you George, God Bless You!!!!!


23 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:04 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: Soul Seeker
Besides, no CONSEVATIVE supports this type of Government spending..RIGHT?

WRONG! Government spending is needed in areas where private companies are unwilling or unable to invest capital.

24 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:13 AM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (Man Law: You Poke It, You Own It)
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To: TheDon

I am proud of my president. Federal funding should not be used in "experimenting" when it comes to destroying human life. Private funding goes on as it is, it is not banned. It causes more harm than good and I am
extremely disappointed in Frist and Hatch.


25 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:19 AM PDT by jackv (just shakin' my head)
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To: Rummyfan

"Good for the President! All I can say is, if embryonic stem cell research is the boon to medicine that some say, why is federal funding needed to conduct it? Don't Glaxo Smith-Kline and Pfizer and Bayer have their own R&D funds????

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And so they are. Universities, too, are still working with embryonic stem cells. They're just not using federal funds to do it.

President Bush's veto really has no effect.


26 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:24 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: TheDon

Another reason to be happy President Bush is in office!



I would be happier if he found it earlier. Now that he found it I hope he uses it often. Now as far as this bill goes, is the congress going to override. That would just make this useless if that happens.


27 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:24 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Lunatic Fringe; Krodg; Zechariah11; LuvyaDubya; Paul_B; Howlin; alpha-8-25-02; BlessedAmerican; ...
This thread must be the reason mine was pulled.

Praise the Lord for a truly PRO-LIFE President!

A PING for answered prayer!

28 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:30 AM PDT by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraqi Liberation VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: admiralsn

You are right, just a ban on funds.


29 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:31 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, over there, We won't be back 'til it's over Over there.")
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

Bush is going to have to do a good job of explaining why he finally chose to exercise the veto hero, because the media and the Dems will spin this one big time, with people in wheelchairs and the whole nine yards.

30 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:37 AM PDT by jpl (Victorious warriors win first, then go to war; defeated warriors go to war first, then seek to win.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
The elected official's job is NOT to simply ape the will of the majority of his constituents nor vote his own will. His job is to do what is legally permitted and best for the societal unit over which he governs. Protecting innocent life is a high calling and moral obligation for any legitimate government. BRAVO! to the President!
31 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:57 AM PDT by Manfred the Wonder Dawg (Test ALL things, hold to that which is True.)
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To: Rummyfan
All I can say is, if embryonic stem cell research is the boon to medicine that some say, why is federal funding needed to conduct it? Don't Glaxo Smith-Kline and Pfizer and Bayer have their own R&D funds????

I couldn't put it any better myself. I would add that these private companies have much more incentive to do the research efficiently and effectively. Give me the profit motive over politics any day.

32 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:59 AM PDT by kesg
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To: CrawDaddyCA; Howlin; Peach; onyx; Dane

Ping


33 posted on 07/19/2006 11:21:59 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Military reasons. You remember Sputnik?


34 posted on 07/19/2006 11:22:09 AM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

He is though on the side that a majority of conservative reps are.
Your claim that 70% of Americans favor embryonic stem cell culling is an outright lie. If you don't appreciate living in a country founded on the precepts of Judeo-Christianity then I'd suggest you vacate the United States.

35 posted on 07/19/2006 11:22:29 AM PDT by jla
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To: admiralsn

Just like building a fence, and adding border controls!


36 posted on 07/19/2006 11:22:47 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: jpl

Politically stupid, morally RIGHT.


37 posted on 07/19/2006 11:23:27 AM PDT by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraqi Liberation VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: MineralMan
President Bush's veto really has no effect.

None at all?

38 posted on 07/19/2006 11:23:40 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

"Because no company is going to invest money that won't produce returns for 40 years.

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Not really. There's lots of embryonic stem cell research going on all over the place. Here at the University of Minnesota, they have several projects ongoing. They're funded by private grants, not federal ones.

Again, this veto is really meaningless if the goal is to prevent such research. It has no effect on it at all.


39 posted on 07/19/2006 11:23:51 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: ohioWfan; onyx; ELS; kstewskis; Salvation

Halleluja!! Praise God for this good man. Logic and the sanctity of all life mean nothing in partisan politics, obviously. Let them whine and bemoan it .. he's giving FIRE, sense and integrity to the critics ... YAY, W!!


40 posted on 07/19/2006 11:24:09 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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