LEFTWINGNUTS, DC KIDS, & REELECTION

At Hot Air, Allahpundit looks in Obama's budget for funding for the Washington, D.C., Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program that allows 1,600 children to attend some of the best private schools in the country, including Sidwell Friends, the $32,000-per-year-plus-fees school that Obama's daughters attend:   He's intent on killing this program. Remember when he tried to kill it slowly back in 2009, promising to fund it until the current participants graduated high school and then to pull the plug? We're talking about something like $20 million in a budget of $3.8 trillion and somehow he can't scrape together the money for scholarships for poor kids to go to private school. When you can't get a few crumbs from a multitrillion-dollar pie, there must be a very, very important reason. And there is. This is basically Keystone part II: Once again, some unfortunate Americans have ended up on the wrong side of a core left-wing constituency whom The One needs to help him get reelected.