breaking news...

[lagilman]

from CNN:

"Senate votes 63-37 to loosen President Bush's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a move Bush has pledged to veto."

Go, Senate!

Comments

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

Yay for the Senate!

Sadly, the shrub is goint to use his veto power for the very first time of his term, and if I'm not mistaken, the Senate is just a few votes shy of being able to override it. :(

Stupid scumbag.

[lagilman]

We're losing time, but not the battle. He's not going to warm that seat for very much longer, and odds are good whoever comes in will not have the same blind, kneejerk reaction against saving lives that already exist versus ex vitro cells....

[elizawrites.livejournal.com]

A small oasis of sanity.

(PS, hi, I friended you because I really like Staying Dead. Hope that's okay.)

[lagilman]

More the merrier -- be welcome!

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think they're two votes down from overriding the veto, but that might change... I mean this just allows for invetro embreo harvesting, so these embreo's would have been tossed anyway. We're just talking logical sense here; make positive use for those living, or waste.... Bush is just being stubborn and 'stay the course' but hopefully more and more people will see that it just doesn't make sense to waste such a wonderful resource that could be used to cure so much and help so many!

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

67 votes to override a veto (2/3+1, more or less).

[lagilman]

and the fckuer vetoed it, to nobody's surprise and many peoples' disgust...

George W really is the poster child for trying to shove YOUR beliefs down everyone else's throats, no matter what THEY might want/wish/believe. And the worst thing is that he does it with such smug self-satisfaction...

[algor.livejournal.com]

Schwarzenegger is already taking advantage of this by coming out and urging Bush not to veto the measure, thereby moving him more to the center in California, and taking away some of challenger Phil Angelides' territory. Angelides, in turn, came out for a Schwarzenegger sponsored bill in the California Assembly to create harsher penalties for sex offenders.

Schwarzenegger has been out as "for" stem cell research for a while, but this sure doesn't hurt his chances for reelection in November.