How stupid is Bush, really?

I'm talking about the so-called Leader of the Freest Nation in the World, stubbornly refusing to sign a bill that will be sent his way today, and that authorizes stem cell research conducted on cells extracted from embryos discarded from artificial fertilization procedures.

They key word here is “discarded.” Bushy Boy insists that the bill would require tax payers to subsidize research that intentionally destroys human life. Again I ask: how stupid is he, really? What exactly does he not understand about the fact that such embryos would otherwise be discarded? That means destroyed, annihilated, disintegrated, and not to do research with them, but as a byproduct of the (if not immoral, certainly ethically questionable, in a planet of six billions) attempt to produce more human beings by artificial means (which, by the way, I don't recall being sanctioned in the Bible either).

To the stupidity of our leader, of course, we have to add the idiocy of our elected representatives, who are also passing (in the House, notoriously more idiotic than the Senate on most matters) two additional and completely useless bills. One encourages scientists to look for alternative ways to obtain stem cells. As if scientists actually needed such encouragement to begin with (they've been looking long and hard for years). The third bill comes closest to pure insanity: it actually prohibits a practice known (to fear-mongering Republicans) as “fetus harvest,” the implantation of human fetuses for the sole purpose of harvesting stem cells. Except that such practice doesn't exist, it has never existed, and has not been proposed by any scientist whatsoever.

One more time, folks, how stupid are these people, really?