The Brad Side of Things

For the first time in his two-year term, resident ape President Bush is rumored to have figured out that he does in fact have the power to veto bills. Instead of just adding his own comments and changing bills to his liking, he finally realizes how the process is supposed to take place.

This report coming from the same lovely mouth that attempted to shed light on a certain CIA leak awhile ago. I am surprised Mr. Karl Rove, still has a job at the office ... but I guess that means we can trust what he says can we not?

I mean suspected perjury isn't that big of a crime, I guess it can get you impeached only if you are a Democrat. Now no one really knows if what Mr. Rove said was really factual or even if Cheney was guilty or not innocent, I am just trying to say that you have to watch what you say in the White House for things may come back to bite you in the rear.

So what if Bush really will use his veto? Of all topics he could choose to veto, the budgets that sent this administration into the worst deficit this country has ever faced, to the Patriot Act, to countless other important documents that passed through the legislature in the past six years, he chose to veto stem cell research.

Take that Christopher Reeve. Now I guess I can see how an administration can stand so firm against the tyrants running around in the Middle East.

Declare all out war and pour billions of dollars to remove a dictator that benefits this great country of ours in so many ways (gas prices are now at the second highest level of all time). But when it comes to combating diseases that have claimed more lives than every terrorist attack in the past 500 years, he says no.

No to the testing on embryos that have no life in them, that are no more than skin cells, or blood cells at that stage,where one single embryo could save the lives of several people.

We are not committing infanticide here; we are promoting more scientific research to find better ways of extracting these stem cells. How will we progress in a scientific way if we are not allowed to hypothesize and test?

For a president that can't even spell stem cell, he sure seems to think he knows a lot about the matter. Well Mr. President, I believe it is time to pick up those rectangular things called Books and do some research and really find out what goes on in stem cell research.

Oh, and for all the comments I am going to get from you Focus on the Family types, save yourself the trouble and focus on your own family, when you catch Parkinson's and you were the ones preventing a cure, then you can see who has the last laugh.

Brad Bettag is a student at Colorado School of Mines.