“President Bush on Wednesday used his veto power for the first time since taking office 5 1/2 years ago, saying that a embryonic stem-cell research bill “crossed a moral boundary.” The bill, which the Senate passed Tuesday, 63-37, would have loosened the restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research. […] “This bill would support the taking of innocent human [embryonic] life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others,” Bush said Wednesday afternoon. “It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect. So I vetoed it.””

Right. Because nuclear warheads or Patriot missiles don’t take the lives of innocents. Because it’s ok to accept the killing of innocents as collateral damage in order to save our asses during a war, but it’s not ok to kill some embryos in order to save thousands of sick people. And because it’s ok to kill animals who live, breath and feel pain so we can pleasure our fat bellies, but it’s not ok to use some freely donated cells of a human body to save others.

What a religious asshat. It’s times like these that I feel that democracy in its current incarnation doesn’t work. What I mean is that either Bush was very good at deceiving most voters, or that most of these voters are indeed freaking idiots and Bush’s advisors relied in their idiocy. I am inclined to believe the latter.