President Bush has been under 50% in ALL the approval rating polls for a better part of a year. So far he has stayed under 40%, only occasionally coming above for one or two polls. Yes, the President is a second term president, which hurts his numbers no matter what, but being so low, it is amazing that he is staying in as powerful of a position on major issue.
One action that can show that he is still in power, even with a low approval numbers, is when he uses his power of veto. That is one of the biggest powers of the office of the President of the United States. But thus far, Mr. Bush has NOT used one veto...that is until now. This can help the President if he veto’s more than just this one bill. It can show that he is (even if people disagree with him) in control. But if he does not veto any other bills, it will lend its self to the argument that he did this for political gain, not for morals. Mr. Bush must take stands on more than one issue, like what he has done on stem cells. If he does not, it only proves (to a point) that this was a political fluke.
That said, right now 60 lines exist legally. And if Mr. Bush really felt that this was a moral issue, he would take a strong stand on those existing lines. But just not expanding on the issue, does not mean that he is winning. Even key Republican leaders in the Senate, including Majority Leader Bill Frist and Sen. Arlen Specter, recognize that stem cells are a good way to help cure certain diseases that afflict the people of America and this research must go forward.
Out of the good that could come from his first veto in terms of political support, if he fails to win on this issue (which is likely) it will again hurt his support. As of the writing of this entry no post-veto approval rating polls are available to see if this veto has helped the President.
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Hi, Demoblogger. Glad to see you're back in action. Here's the right-wing take on embryonic stem cell research:
Some right-wingers are opposed to abortion, feticide, and infanticide. Others are not. Some right-wingers see the use of embryos as feticide. Others do not.
But almost all right-wingers do not see any legitimate reason for the Federal government to take taxpayers money by force and conduct medical research. Medical research is best done by the private sector, where sick people voluntarily lay down their last dollars in an attempt to feel better.
The Federal government should not be conducting embryonic stem cell research, or erectile disfunction research, or AIDS research, or autism research, or . . . you get the right-ward drift . . . .
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