George and Laura were on Larry King last night and they were asked about stem cell research. Mrs. Bush stands in stark contrast to the President, who thinks scientific study of stem cells makes the baby Jesus cry.

Mrs. Bush claims she has no moral problem with stem cell research. She says she has reservations about it because the research is so preliminary. That’s right folks, the logic is that cures for common diseases may not come from the research for years and years, therefore, it’s not worth funding.

Obviously that’s a fairly indefensible position.

From my point of view, if these discoveries are years of research away… let’s get started now.

I don’t remember Lou Pasteur being all, “This is hard. I quit. I want to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation, but this experiment alone won’t do it, therefore it’s not worth persuing.”

Gah…