He really is a moron, isn't he?

Bush vetoes a bill funding stem cell research. He piously claims:

"This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others"

And:

"It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect, so I vetoed it"

Wanker.

Ignorant wanker.

The taking of an innocent life is not OK to get medical benefits for others, but is fine to get oil in Iraq or revenge for 9/11 in Afghanistan. You are a war president, you cannot act as a defender of life when you have killed thousands of people in the Middle East. The moral high ground became out of bounds for you years ago, Georgie boy.

Perhaps the closest we have to a precedent for Bush is President Ulysses S Grant. A Republican with a drink problem with no real political ability who was elected twice (because there was no-one else) to preside over two scandal ridden administrations. But even that does not work, as Grant had an brilliant career prior to winning the presidency as a general in Lincoln's army in the Civil War. Which is slightly more impressive that being a failed oil magnate and a mediocre governor.