No Crook Left Behind

Just when you were beginning to forget the Bushies are ultimately about stealing huge profits, the ends to which the obsession with partisan politics is just the means, comes more news about old fashioned money-grubbing corruption in one of those programs with weepy names, No Child Left Behind. According to the Washington Post, it's so blatant that even this Justice Department can't ignore it.

The disclosure came as a congressional hearing revealed how people implementing the $1 billion-a-year Reading First program made at least $1 million off textbooks and tests toward which the federal government steered states.

Since this program was all about these tests, the intent is clear. Now we know for sure what "compassionate conservatism" means to the Bushies. It means you sound compassionate as a way to rob the Treasury and privatize for personal profit.