It gives one hope that not all of the GOP is drinking Bush's and the fundies anti-science Kool-Aid.

It's not as if most of America is on the President's side of this issue anyways. So I don't know whether to chalk it up to Republicans feeling more freedom to break free of Bush due to Bush's lame duck status, Arlen Specter's impassioned support of this issue, or just simply doing what's right and also what's right by the people you're supposed to be representing.

It's going to at least keep the U.S. in the running scientifically. Let's stick to science and reason and let the Islamists experiment with faith based policy. And let the religious right threaten to cannabilize and punish any of their own who disagree with them. I really think they need to overstep a bit more and start publicly threatening Senators again just to drive a point home.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. --Will Rogers "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - George W. Bush I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would .. try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile. - Condoleeza Rice Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor To comfort the powerless and make the powerful uncomfortable.