David Corn wants a conservative to stick up for the president on his stem-cell answer at his press conference yesterday. Sure, I’ll bite. That’s a perfectly defensible answer Bush gave. Should the federal government fund research that destroys embryos? No. And that’s the issue Bush is dealing with, the bill he’s said he will veto. The president doesn’t have to be our national moral philosopher, he has to deal with policy as its being crafted—and, in this case, sent to his desk.