Bush will veto the stem cell research bill today

Full story here.

I know, I know. Stem cell research issues are about as sexy as is Paris Hilton, (that is to say, not at all), but Bush's veto threat illustrates a larger point.

Since I was a liberal arts major in college, I won't try to explain or even understand the science involved, except that the embryonic stem cells in question are a collection of about 150 cells called a blastocyst, which is formed sometime after the sperm cell fertilizes the egg, but before the embryo start to take on the characteristics of a fetus. A blastocyst can still become twins, for example. It doesn't have a heart, a spinal column, or any characteristics of a living being.

Basic stem cell primer here.

Nevertheless, in the eyes of the Holy Terrors, once that sperm cell hits the egg, life is created and so blastocysts are living beings, and any type of stem cell research is therefore murder.

This is nothing new. The Holy Terrors are bound and determined to push back the definition of when life is created until they say it happens when the guy gets the girl's bra undone.

What interests me is who's opposing Bush on this one. Neo-con/fascist Orrin Hatch, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (That's DOCTOR Bill Frist, btw), and even Groppenfuhrer Governor Ahnold Schwartznegger are on the other side of the President.

This is just one more example of how Bushco is a slave to the Holy Terrors. He's opposing the leadership of his own party to make sure Dobson and Co. are happy.

Bush isn't even smart enough to realize this veto is unnecessary. He could do the honorable thing to advance scientific research and show the GOP and the nation he can be reasonable once in a while, and sign the bill into law.

But since his popularity is still in the mid-thirties, he feels he has to shore up his Holy Terror base and show them he's still their stooge. But Bush's base is never going to abandon him. He could be anally raping Karl Rove on his desk in the Oval Office and they'd still support him.

The bottom line is Bush simply can't do anything to oppose the people who put him into power. The Holy Terrors say "stem cell research is murder," and he parrots their line.

He's not just a whore, he's a cheap whore.