What He Said
Charles Pierce says what iIm too pissed to say about President kill Again breaking the shrinkwrap n his Veto Power in order to put the Evil Eye on Stem Cell Research:
I have watched slow death from neurological disease once too often in my life to be anything but furious when Sam Brownback, a United States senator to the everlasting embarrassment of that body, pulls out a child’s drawing of an embryo with a smiley-face in order to argue his position. Or when Tony Snow, that towering public fake, starts getting glib about “murder,” as though there isn’t enough blood lapping at the ankles of everyone in this White House to float a barge. Or when Snow’s boss, that tough-talkin’, crumb-spittin’, neck-rubbin’ international buckaroo, uses the first veto of his presidential career and then hides behind children while maundering incoherently about a “moral line” as though he’d recognize one if he fell over it. Is there any doubt that, if this guy got Parkinson’s Disease, he’d eat those little buggers out of the petri dish with a spoon, probably dribbling some of them on Tony Blair in the process?
That Bush would make this issue his first Veto in five years is so telling about this administration. Fuck the environment, Iraq, Afghanistan, or any real issue out there. Vetos are for chumps. Unless you can stop scientific progress and pander to the Am Taliban.