[Lunatic Fringe]

Way to go. Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

Mr President, where was your veto pen when it came to CFR, bloated budgets, and dozens of other bad bills????

[Constitution Day]

BUMP

[CrawDaddyCA]

Well said.

Look out!! Here come the BushBots!

[Soul Seeker]

yeah, like the abortion lobbyists that have spun this issue beyond all distortion aren't pushing their own personal religious agendas.

Besides, no CONSEVATIVE supports this type of Government spending..RIGHT? Fiscal conservatives should be galf he found the VETO pen by default.

[Coldwater Creek]

Vetoing those bills would have been useless. The veto would have been overridden.

I am happy with this one.

[jpl]

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.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

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!

[jla]

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.

[stevio]

I'm not always happy with what Bush does, but I'm ecstatic that he vetoed this. It is outrageous that we would start funding the harvesting of humans.

[meandog]

Way to go. Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

Perhaps, the only reason he did it was because he knew his veto is going to be overridden.

[Just A Nobody]

PRESIDENT Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people

First, where do you get 70% of the American people. It seems to me that in November of 2004 the majority of the American people voted for what the President just did.

Second, the majority of CONgress goes against the majority of the American people ALL, if not most, of the time.

If you listened to the President, HE is NOT banning embryonic stem cell research. You are more than welcome to do so with your OWN money - keep your hands off my wallet.

The President is forbidding CONgress from FORCING me to pay for this mess.

THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!!!

[DAC21]

"Way to go. Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view"

Sorry no BushBot here, and I'm hardly religious, but destroying human life goes beyond religion. Seems it more simple, Right vs Wrong. It isn't as though the fricking Gov. is the only one whom has money to support this research. (Let alone the rest of the world)

[Moonman62]

Way to go. Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

This bill is entirely symbolic, as is most of the garbage going on in Congress before the elections. GWB is right on this one. Most of the public is sadly misinformed on this one because it is a proxy for the abortion issue.

[RightWhale]

The Pres is acting just as he did on this issue in 2001. There is no change.

[hocndoc]

It seems that the President believes in the right not to be killed.

[stillonaroll]

Way to go. Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

I’ll correct that for you: “...to push the point of view of the pro-life base of the Republican Party."

Mr President, where was your veto pen when it came to CFR, bloated budgets, and dozens of other bad bills????

I do agree with you on your second point, that he should have vetoed early and often.

[VRWCmember]

Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

Religion over science.

I don't think there are any polls out there showing 70% of the American people support the use of federal tax dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research. There was no way the President should sign this bill. He was absolutely right to veto it. As for the idea that this veto is pushing his personal religious point of view or a case of "religion over science", the bill itself was pushing the religious view of liberalism that worships at the altar of abortion above all else. From a scientific perspective, it makes no sense whatsover to throw tax dollars at a failed proposition of embryonic stem cell reseach when ALL the scientific experiments on stem cell therapy have demonstrated that adult stem cells and umbilical cord blood stem cells show promise in developing treatment for over 70 different diseases, but not one single viable treatment has yet been identified from embryonic stem cell research.

Either you have bought the LIES of the embryonic stem cell proponents (who are simply trying to see how far they can push the envelope on the ethics of creating and destroying human life), or you believe that any and every event presents a reason to bash Bush for something.

[xjcsa]

Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

My opposition to this bill has nothing to do with my "personal religious point of view" any more than my opposition to murder is of a religious nature. My belief that these embryos are living human beings is grounded in science and common sense, not religion; my belief that human life has dignity and is deserving of protection is one of the founding principles of this country.

[italianquaker]

Thats why i voted for him pro life is pro life

GO DUBYA

[Kenny Bunkport]

I guess it's no accident that your screen name is "Lunatic Fringe."

[garbanzo]

Bush goes against the majority of Congress and 70% of American people to push his personal religious point of view.

Vetoed bills, by definition, go against the majority of Congress. Bills that don't have majority support don't reach the President's desk.