BUSH'S VETO ON FRIST = A GOOD THING
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist has cooked his future, for sure. The Republican Party is solidly anti-killing womb babies and that includes embryonic stem cell research.
US President George W. Bush has consistently guided the Party on this issue. There has been no question, no doubt, no wobble. Mr. Bush has made his convictions known time and again and they are always the same.
"The Republican Party is a strong pro-life party that believes in the sanctity of life,'' House Republican Leader Tom DeLay said. "A candidate that believes in the destruction of life ... would have a very hard time appealing to the vast majority of Republicans.''
That means that with the ’08 elections coming up — and time does fly by when one is having fun — there are fewer Republican contenders for the Chief Executive position who are powerfully impressive for a continuance of the Bush-conviction years.
Frist might think that he has a chance with the Republicans for the next national election. But if he does, he’s become brain sheltered in the Senate these days so as not to realize the Republican Big Picture.
Speaking of Republican presidential contenders, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is not one of them for she has stated she is not sure about a pro-life position in her own convictions. Not sure does not cut it.
Senator John McCain leaves much to be desired in the ethics department; that is so on numerous levels. The bottom line is that Republicans could never trust a waffler McCain for his crystal-clear motive on everything is sheer personal opportunism, not the furtherance of an American moral base via the Republican Party.
So many had thought Frist would be the clean-cut doctor Republican politician whose ethics could be trusted front and backwards. But this past week has brought down the curtain on Frist.
Republicans are so engrained in their anti-killing womb babies principle that they would never budge. After all, this issue has to do with murder. One cannot be for murder and against murder. It’s a matter in which one is ethically and logically in one category or another. To waffle is to smear the screen from top to bottom.
Frist has now smeared the screen from top to bottom.
Now we can expect a presidential veto. And that is very definitely a good thing. The defenseless unborn are expecting it. The morally grounded Americans are expecting it. God is expecting it. So we will have a veto from George W. Bush.
It appears then that at least in the House of Representatives there would not be enough votes to override Mr. Bush’s Nay. The issue passed the House with a 238 to 194 vote. That’s about 50 votes shy of a two-thirds count needed.
Further, as of today, according to Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, the likes of a Senator Dianne Feinstein give all the more fuel to the veto fire when she crows: “My heart jumped a beat when I heard Senator Frist's speech. I believe his decision will generate new momentum for embryonic stem cell research and speed passage of this bill.''
Stay tuned.
Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist has cooked his future, for sure. The Republican Party is solidly anti-killing womb babies and that includes embryonic stem cell research.
US President George W. Bush has consistently guided the Party on this issue. There has been no question, no doubt, no wobble. Mr. Bush has made his convictions known time and again and they are always the same.
"The Republican Party is a strong pro-life party that believes in the sanctity of life,'' House Republican Leader Tom DeLay said. "A candidate that believes in the destruction of life ... would have a very hard time appealing to the vast majority of Republicans.''
That means that with the ’08 elections coming up — and time does fly by when one is having fun — there are fewer Republican contenders for the Chief Executive position who are powerfully impressive for a continuance of the Bush-conviction years.
Frist might think that he has a chance with the Republicans for the next national election. But if he does, he’s become brain sheltered in the Senate these days so as not to realize the Republican Big Picture.
Speaking of Republican presidential contenders, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is not one of them for she has stated she is not sure about a pro-life position in her own convictions. Not sure does not cut it.
Senator John McCain leaves much to be desired in the ethics department; that is so on numerous levels. The bottom line is that Republicans could never trust a waffler McCain for his crystal-clear motive on everything is sheer personal opportunism, not the furtherance of an American moral base via the Republican Party.
So many had thought Frist would be the clean-cut doctor Republican politician whose ethics could be trusted front and backwards. But this past week has brought down the curtain on Frist.
Republicans are so engrained in their anti-killing womb babies principle that they would never budge. After all, this issue has to do with murder. One cannot be for murder and against murder. It’s a matter in which one is ethically and logically in one category or another. To waffle is to smear the screen from top to bottom.
Frist has now smeared the screen from top to bottom.
Now we can expect a presidential veto. And that is very definitely a good thing. The defenseless unborn are expecting it. The morally grounded Americans are expecting it. God is expecting it. So we will have a veto from George W. Bush.
It appears then that at least in the House of Representatives there would not be enough votes to override Mr. Bush’s Nay. The issue passed the House with a 238 to 194 vote. That’s about 50 votes shy of a two-thirds count needed.
Further, as of today, according to Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, the likes of a Senator Dianne Feinstein give all the more fuel to the veto fire when she crows: “My heart jumped a beat when I heard Senator Frist's speech. I believe his decision will generate new momentum for embryonic stem cell research and speed passage of this bill.''
Stay tuned.
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