So the only three bills worth a veto are stem cell research, funding the troops, and hate crime legislation?

Question

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/03/hate.crimes.bill/index.html

What is wrong with this guy?

Oh, meathead, er hook. . .
1) He vetoed a TYPE of stem cell research. The TYPE that could save a lot of lives.

2) The bill on his desk had every dollar he asked for this war in it. Money for things like body armor and up-armored humvees that could save a lot of lives. The Iraq Accountability Act benchmarks weren't even binding! The president just fears the accountability part, I'm afraid.
3) Yes, it is worse. Maybe it would deter idiots from committing hate crimes if they knew that the government wouldn't look the other way when they commit these atrocities.

Anything else?

Meathook- I have been a sailor on leave in Singapore (really). I spent a lot more conservatively than this president.

1) Why stop research? I don't understand how one can choose to not discover cures for terrible afflictions. this isn't organ harvesting from children, this is using frozen embryos due to be discarded to help people.
2) One of two things is going to happen- the president will sign this bill, or one with more rigid timelines, or he will recieve no funding and the war will end. Elections have consequences and Bush is not the emperor of this nation.
3) Gay bashing is worse than getting into a fistfight. It should be punished more stringently. I don't see the argument there, unless one is planning on committing a hate crime.

It would have been a crime not to use "meathead"- it's too easy.

Answer 1

Why don't you tell the whole story

1) Its Government Funded Research on Fetal Stem Cells. There is no limits on Government Funding of other types of stem cell research
2) It was a veto of a funding bill that included a timetable instead of better measure on when to remove the troops from Iraq. It was not a veto of funding the troops, just a veto of the timetable provision and it was a fairly astute political move. The Democrats do not want to be known as the party that cut funding of our troops going into the '08 election.
3) Hate crime legislation is a crock. Why is it a worse crime if it is perpetrated against a certain group? If someone decides they want to go out and pick on a minority they already have provisions that increase the sentence. Its called premeditated actions.

Whats wrong with you? Are you too slow to understand the whole issues or can you only support parts of them? Is that why you cherry pick your information?

Edit - Oh puhlease give me a break.

1) Show me anywhere that fetal stem cell research has shown any more actual promise to date VS the actual progress that has been made in adult stem cell research. There is no restriction on using fetal stem cells, the government just will not condone using a viable fetus to destroy for research. How about using the facts?
2) The spending bill, while containing the money requested, included unacceptable provisions. That would be like passing a bill funding Fetal Stem Cell Research(which you obviously support) while outlawing abortion(which I assume you don't) and putting it in front of a Liberal President.
3) How does the government look the other way? The perpetrators of any crimes are punished if they are caught. How about if I really hate my white neighbor and beat him with a hammer because of how much I hate him. He is just as beaten as he would have been if he was a minority but I am much more comfortable doing it because it is only a normal crime instead of a hate crime? Maybe you, but not me.

Is that your best? And really Meathead? Gee you can hit the softballs...is that the best you can do?

Answer 2

First we in basic terms comprehend of opportunities that could result from stem cellular study. we've not got any way of genuinely understanding what we are able to be waiting to do with them, so any wild hypothesis like "curing tens of millions and tens of millions of ailments" is incomprehensible (in terms of what's going to genuinely take place). For the checklist, there became into extra advantageous than a million bill (a minimum of three i comprehend of at this factor) and Bush in basic terms vetoed one so a approaches, banning farming of three day previous fetus' (i would be incorrect). besides the shown fact that, i do no longer agree together with his determination.

Answer 3

I really can't understand how he can justify the hate crime bill...I suppose the stem cell thing could be a religious thing, but its refusing to look at human misery and does little to find a reasonable solution ....as far a the war, his only compromise is to see it his way

Answer 4

Exactly, was planning to ask the Q myself.

I think it is laughable when the Repubs. squeak, "he's cutting it b/c of the pork..." Yeah, right b/w 2000-2006 we had record number earmarks and Bush's "rubber-stamp" Congress spent more than any congress in history (adjusted for inflation). They were literally gorging themselves in pork. Suddenly he starts vetoing bills that actually HELP the American people he's called "fiscally responsible". Sheesh.