Kathryn, that’s a terrific editorial on Bush’s spending crisis, but while it’s right that cutting pork alone is not going to solve the problem, it should not be overlooked either. Pork is the poster child for government bloat, and it needs to highlighted, project by project, by project, and the politicians who push it should be made to defend each project again and again. It’s also important (I think that Tom Coburn’s efforts are running in this direction) to push through a more general legislative change that makes that sort of spending far more visible.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin is taking a hatchet to Don ‘A Bridge Too Far’ Young, noting these comments of his in response to criticism of the Highway Bill (signed, of course, by George W. Bush) : “This is grandstanding by individuals that don’t know what they’re talking about. I’ll go back to that. It’s ignorance and stupidity.”

Why on earth would anyone vote for this man?