First veto: Stem cell research; Second veto: End the war; Third veto:?

[BurtWorm]

Hate crime bill. Bush vetos life, peace and love. What a bastidge!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/04/MNG9SPKPT51.DTL&feed=rss.news

San Francisco Chronicle
Veto threat for federal hate crimes protection for gays

Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

Friday, May 4, 2007



(05-04) 04:00 PDT Washington -- After the same-sex marriage fights that roiled the 2004 elections and knocked gay rights groups on their heels, advocates seemed poised with the Democratic seizure of Congress in November to enact federal civil rights laws they have sought for nearly two decades.

But four hours before House passage Thursday of a federal hate crimes bill that has languished since 1991, the White House issued a threat to veto the bill, which would be just the third veto of the Bush presidency.

"It makes it apparent to a lot of people," said Rep. Barney Frank, a gay Massachusetts Democrat, "that as long as you have George Bush as president, nothing that tries to promote fairness for gay and lesbian people has any chance."

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[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. anti-discrimination?

my guess

[wakeme2008]

2. minimum wage is my guess

:shrug:

[baldguy]

3. 1st: medical science...2nd:peace

3rd? My geuss is human rights.

[jobycom]

4. Well, he's getting better, I guess. This veto only further solidifies

civil rights violations that will lead to horrendous inequality and discrimination, causing much personal suffering.

That's a bit of an improvement over his previous vetoes, which further solidifies horrendous suffering and mass death. I'd call that an improvement. :sarcasm:

[CPschem]

5. quite a veto record the dipshit has.

anti-science and anti-peace.

[Rob H.]

6. But, but, but EVERY CRIME is a hate crime!

:sarcasm: even though a neocon asswipe actually said that to me on another forum. (What about jaywalking? Speeding? Driving with expired tags?)

Bush didn't support the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act when he was governor of Texas, either. (Emphasis added)

On May 6, 1999, (Byrd's oldest daughter, Renee) Mullins; her cousin, Darrell Verrett; state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston; and a gay rights lobbyist met with Bush to lobby on behalf of the bill.

"I went in there pleading to him," Mullins says. "I said that if he helped me move it along I would feel that he hadn't died in vain ... Thompson said, 'Gov. Bush, what Renee's trying to say is, Would you help her pass the bill?' And he said, 'No.' Just like that."

"He had a nonchalant attitude, like he wanted to hurry up and get out of there," Mullins says. "It was cold in that room."

*snip*

Bush's opposition to the bill reportedly revolved around the fact that it would cover gays and lesbians. The governor's office "contacted the family and asked if we would consider taking sexual orientation out of the bill," Harris says. "And our answer was no, because the bill is for everybody. Everybody should be protected by the law."