Brent Baker sends along this enlightening exchange on science and politics from Bill Maher’s latest HBO show.

Maureen Dowd: “…She’s [Teresa Heinz Kerry] been sort of eclipsed this week by Laura Bush, I think.”
Bill Maher: “Yeah, who, ah, said she came out against the stem cell research. Why is she an expert on something so technical?”
Dowd: “Because Karl Rove thinks that if the Bush White House gets four million more evangelical votes than they did last time it ensures Bush’s re-election, which means he’s not his dad. And so they’ve dragged
poor Laura Bush out to go, for this, what Lee Atwater used to call the extra-chromosome conservatives.”