Congratulations Senator Claire McCaskill!

Congratulations to Claire McCaskill the new Democratic Senator of the great state of Missouri! Ms. McCaskill defeated incumbent Sen. Jim Talent in one of the nation's most closely contested races, a campaign that focused on McCaskill's support for a stem-cell research referendum.

If you remember, it was a McCaskill stem cell research ad featuring Michael J. Fox swaying noticeably from the effects of Parkinson's disease drew nationwide attention and the skepticism of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.

Talent opposed the stem cell initiative because it would allow a cloning procedure that he says destroys human life at its earliest stages. President Bush appeared with Talent at two rallies in the Republican bases of Springfield and Joplin. Bad idea, ya think?