disturbing the comfortable

AP News just announced the story: Dick Cheney voted to cut spending on the poor, breaking a tie in the Senate. I guess we should feel cheered that the President's budget was stupid and reactionary enough that even some Republicans didn't like it. But, even so, it's going to hurt many many people. But they'll be poor people and the vast majority of the Republican Party is not poor.

Maybe someday they will be poor. That's what I want for Christmas, Santa.