Does George Bush laugh when he hears of kids dying with defective hearts?

[SensibleAmerican]

Does George Bush laugh when a non-smoking young mother of three dies of lung cancer?

Does George Bush laugh when he sees a paraplegic?

Does George Bush laugh when he hears of people with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's?

Does George Bush laugh at these people like he laughed at Karla Faye Tucker and Cindy Sheehan?

Because just as he had control of Karla's fate and the fate of our soldiers overseas, he is holding control over the fate of sick Americans by vetoing the stem cell bill.

[Hekate]

1. Yup.Sometime tomorrow when he thinks the camera's not looking, he'll smirk

...just as he does the veto.

It's power. The man is drunk on power, addicted to power, and he gets a visceral thrill from the power of life and death.

The late Pope John Paul II was on to Bush. He figured he was fronting for a cult of death.

Hekate

[Prophet 451]

2. I doubt it

I think he genuinely feels bad for these people. And then he'll go and veto the bill anyway. Not because of some kind of principle, I might respect it if it were for a principle even if I disagreed but for two reasons:
Firstly, because absolutely everything is subserviant to keeping him in power. Everything, the word is an absolute. If raping Barbara Bush with a cactus on the Whitehouse lawn would preserve his power, he'd do it without a second thought.
Secondly, because there is a fundemental disconnect with Bush. Since he, like most conservatives, believes the government can never do anything good, it's only a short step to thinking government can never have any real effect at all. He fails to emotionally connect that his actions have consequences. Perhaps he mentally understands that vetoing teh stem cell bill will kill a lot of people but on an emotional level, he simply doesn't comprehend that his actions will have that effect. I seem to remember that's one definition of a psychopath (no shortage of them in politics).