First of all, I hope Bartcop radio was a smashing success. I wasn't able to
get through to you because the line was busy, so I hope that means you had
all the support you could handle. I couldn't pull the station up on my computer,
but I'll keep trying to catch a rebroadcast.

Second, I'd like to offer my take on what pResident Dumbass had to say tonight.

You have to give this to President Rove ... I mean Cheney ... I mean Bush.
Forgive me, it's an easy mistake to make.

At any rate, you have to give whoever is running the show credit. Bush
managed to do everything he wanted and nothing he didn't.

Yes, he went back on another campaign promise, but that's nothing new. And by
limiting stem cell research to the woefully inadequate 16 existing lines, he
can honest tell the anti-choice zealots, "I didn't do anything. All those
butchers had already done the damage. We need to make sure those poor little
forgotten wads of goo didn't die in vain."

He has also managed to shut up the left wing. Goodness knows no one in the
Democratic Party is going to have the cojones to stand up and call him on
this stance. They're all going to say how courageous it is of Bush to change
his mind and allow government funds to be used for research. Never mind that
the research that will be conducted will be, for all intents and purposes
worthless. It would be the same as if he said he would allow federal funding
for abortion clinics ... on Mars.

And lastly, and here's the biggie that I think most people are going to overlook.
By continually harping on what a moral and ethical dilemma this is, Bush is going
to further polarize the public and spend the next three and a half years talking
about how these poor little embryos are human life. End result? the overturning
of Roe vs Wade by a slim majority after Karl, Ari, Dick and the whore press
trumpet non-stop about how these five-celled little blobs are living, breathing
human beings.

On the bright side, however, if they come up with a cure for Alzheimer's maybe
Reagan and Poppy Bush can be treated so they can recall those planeloads of Stinger
missiles and who know what else they sent to Khomeini to thank him for beating the
living piss out of American hostages long enough to put Reagan and Bush in office.

Keep up the good work and keep swinging the hammer.