Animal Story

So let's see--the administration would like to make permanent tax cuts the bulk of which go to the wealthy and which, along with the cost of occupying Iraq, have rung up deficits to the tune of $412 billion last year. Then, in order to try to pull the country back from the brink of financial ruin and to prove that they're really, really serious about cutting the deficit(!), they're going to propose cuts in Medicaid?

Let there not be a shred of bipartisan cover for this or any other attempt to shift our debt burden onto the backs of the poor and disabled. Let Democrats utter the words "moral values" as often as Mr. Bush spoke of "freedom" in his speech yesterday--a word that curdles in his mouth like toads falling from the lips of the evil sister in a Mother Goose fairy tale. In fairy tales, of course, the bad characters get eaten by wolves. Life should be so simple.