CNN ran a story about a young girl whose school was crumbling and falling apart. All she wanted was to have a quality place to be educated. In her desperation she penned a letter to lawmakers that ended up in the Oval Office and netted her a seat at the “State of the Nation” (Not Union?) address next to First Lady Michelle Obama. She was thrilled with the news that the stimulus plan would have money that could be used to help schools like hers. That is, until she found out that the EVIL Mark Sanford, Governor of her state (South Carolina), was refusing the stimulus money because Washington would not allow him to use it to pay down the state’s debt. I feel like watching the media villanize fiscal conservatives is becoming a new national past-time, move over baseball.

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