Bad Idea.

Good morning, your president is an idiot.

LA Times, July 19: President Bush bluntly and swiftly defied a bipartisan majority in Congress and a strong current in public opinion and exercised his veto power for the first time today to block an expansion of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. ... With the stroke of a pen, Bush left an enormous stamp on American science and medicine and the ethical standards that apply to them. The war in Iraq may be spinning out of his control, but with his veto Bush shaped the flow of billions of dollars of federal research support that is a cornerstone of U.S. science.

Uh. What the hell? Doctor, what do you think?

"With his veto the president has now reaffirmed a policy that never made any sense, garnered no scientific support to speak of, was abandoned by both houses of Congress and the leaders of his own party and, most importantly, got no traction with those most in need of the benefits of the research — patients and their families." - Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.

*Sigh.*