BUSH 2008 BUDGET FOR DUMMIES (LIKE BUSH)

I want to recommend the column Matt Taibbi did on Bush's 2008 budget. If your eyes just glazed over at the word "budget," at least read this quick take:

If Bush and the Republicans get their way and the Estate Tax is completely repealed, the estimated savings to just one family-- the Walton family, heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune and major GOP political donors-- would be about $32.7 billion dollars over the next ten years, just slightly more than the $28 billion cut to Medicaid Bush is proposing for the same time period.

If you ever voted for a Republican you deserve this and I hope you get it-- as long as no one who never voted for a Republican doesn't. Read Mark's column; he has all the richest Republican donor families and how much they get out of this-- and what social programs get gutted to pay for the strengthening of an American aristocracy. OK, that'll be the last mention of a budget from me today.