Culture of Life

So let's see... by the end of the day, President Bush will have vetoed three bills over the course of his Presidency. Two are the same stem cell research funding bill, where he argues that when making tough decisions, we always have to err on the side of life. The other one, vetoing a phased withdrawal from Iraq, errs on the side of death.

P.S. This is fine, although what does "encourage" mean?

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.

He should send a bill to Congress funding that research instead of "encouraging" it. What's that mean, he goes down to the HHS department and claps?