John Kerry is quoted, on the subject of the tax cut passed last week, saying:

"George Bush promised to leave no child behind, and with the stroke of his pen yesterday, he left 12 million children behind," Kerry said. "The president's tax bill spends billions on the wealthiest Americans, and yet it is America's children who had to make the sacrifice."

I'm awed by this twisted reasoning: he's talking about a tax cut as if it were a government expenditure. It's unfair to "spend" money on wealthy people, in Kerry's world. Somehow, this money should be refunded to people who have paid no income tax.

This is the genius of the left: the ability to straight-facedly describe tax cuts as an entitlement program.