President Bush should veto the stem cell bill that Congress has passed. Embryonic stem cells are pretty much a flop.

Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, Bush plans to veto a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.

At the same time, Bush will issue an executive order directing the Health and Human Services Department to promote research into cells that, like human embryonic stem cells, also hold the potential of regenerating into different types of cells that might be used to battle disease.

Now you know the Democrats are going to have something to say about this. Bush is not going to get in the way of them destroying life and not get an earful.

“This is just one example of how the president puts ideology before science, politics before the needs of our families, just one more example of how out of touch with reality he and his party have become,” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., told the Take Back America conference of liberal activists Wednesday.

Pander much? Did you consider mentioning that adult stem cells are having FAR greater success in combating those terrible illnesses? Did you consider mentioning “somatic cell reprogramming,” a process that involves “the production of cells with the characteristics and abilities of embryonic stem cells, but without the destruction of embryos?“

Sen. Clinton, before you go spouting your sermon to the choir, maybe you should look at the big picture and see that adult stem cells have emerged at the better of the two options.

Update:

He pulled the trigger on the veto.