Billions for War, No Health Care for Children

The Bush administration has just adopted new rules making it much more difficult for states to provide health care insurance to children of "middle-income" families. According to the government, if you are a family of four making over $20,560, you are officially not living in poverty. What century are they living in? I guess when your lame-duck presidency is imploding and you're busy killing, maiming, and torturing tens of thousands of people in an unpopular war halfway around the world, now is about as good a time as any to finally toss that mask of compassionate conservatism aside once and for all.