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Ok, Now What?

The duck on crutches offered a surprising message to the American public regarding the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast. Some of us even questioned how well that level of spending would go over with the borrow and spend GOP majority. It's nice to see all is not lost. Expectations do not need lowering, they've been met.

Think they suggested rolling back taxes, reducing spending in Iraq, cutting some of the vast pork inserted into the transportation or energy bills? Nope. These are the guys who have pictures of Calvin peeing on the less fortunate on the back of their Hummers.

Some of the finer suggestions are:

• $225 billion cut from Medicaid, the last-resort health insurance program for the very poor.
• $200 billion cut from Medicare, the health care safety net for the elderly and the disabled.
• $25 billion cut from the Centers for Disease Control
• $6.7 billion cut from school lunches for poor children
• $7.5 billion cut from programs to fight global AIDS
• $5.5 billion to eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• $3.6 billion cut to eliminate the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
• $8.5 billion cut to eliminate all subsidized loans to graduate students.
• $2.5 billion cut from Amtrak
• $2.5 billion to eliminate the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative
• $417 million cut to eliminate the Minority Business Development Agency
• $4.8 billion cut to eliminate all funding for the Safe and Drug-Free schools program

Well, they do have to fund Haliburton somehow.