Pyrrhic Victory For Science

The House just voted to overturn GWB's ban on federal funding of stem cell research. Problem:

The 238-to-194 vote in favor [is] far short of the 290 needed to override a presidential veto....

Double Problem: The president's position is, well,

more careful of [embryos] than is Nature and (for believers) Nature's God. Meanwhile actually existing human beings who perhaps might be spared disease, disability and early death by means of embryonic stem treatments can just go hang.