Bush No Longer a Veto Virgin, Uses First to Deny Medical Advances

The White House resident finally used his first veto, apparently unable to find a way around the law with a "signing statement" (read: "evasive maneuver") this time around. The law was passed by a huge majority in a Republican Congress that is beginning to realize it had better distance itself from the extremely unpopular president, but not quite a large enough majority to override the veto.

It only took Bush nearly six years to finally nix a bill, and naturally, he used the veto in the worst way possible. The law simply would have allowed surplus embryos from fertility clinics to be used for pathbreaking research, rather than tossed in the garbage. He's not "saving" any embryos – and, dumb as he is, he knows it. He's just kowtowing to his "base" – those poor, unfortunate, uneducated, duped, misguided, "religious" (in their minds), right-wing Limbaugh fans who remain in the dark about reality here on earth. In their zeal to "protect life," they are merely causing the continued premature deaths and suffering that could be alleviated by the discoveries that await medical science.

The discoveries will still happen, but most likely in other countries by other scientists not encumbered with idiotic leaders who would rather kill tens of thousands of innocents abroad by starting illegal and counter-productive wars, than help his own citizens – all the while anointing himself as some kind of "conduit" of God's word. Never in history has it been more obvious that a leader is a hypocrite of the highest order than with George W. Bush.