Aug 14
I’d Call This a "Mandate!"
Remember all the talk about “mandates” after the last election? Despite an extraordinarily narrow margin, Bush stayed in the White House, then went on to claim that this represented a mandate from voters to stay the course.
The most recent edition of the “Patrick’s Place Poll” asked your feelings on stem cell research after the president’s veto of a bill that would have allowed federal funding for the controversial science.
There were three options for voters:
1. It represents a great hope against some terrible diseases. It should receive federal funding.2. It has potential, but it should not be endorsed through federal funding. Let those who want to pay for it do it behind closed doors.
3. It is absolutely wrong. Not only should it not be funded, but it shouldn’t be allowed at all.
And the seemingly-impossible happened. In a world when no one can agree on much of anything when it comes to hot-button political issues, there was unanimous agreement: 100% of voters selected the first option, saying it was worthwhile and should be funded.
One hundred percent!
So where, exactly, is that veto override?
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August 14th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Isn’t it wonderful how tuned into the will of the people G.W. is?
August 15th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Sigh. I suppose it makes for a nice daydream…the nightmare, however, is that he cares very little what America thinks.
August 15th, 2006 at 7:06 am
Amazing! I knew what my view was, but I hardly expected everyone else here to agree with me! (Your readers seem a bit more conservative on average than I am….)
August 15th, 2006 at 7:06 am
unfortunately he’s managed to take this whole country down more then one notch! This vote came as no surprise to me!