You know times are changing when the White House feels it's best to leak news of an expansion of tax cuts late on a Friday. Gone are the days of jolly old Santa Reagan, beaming as he dispenses goodies from his bag of supply-side stimuli; gone, too, apparently, is the Bush of 2000, self-righteously proclaiming, "It's your money!" Bush and his people know that we know they've pissed away our money already and are working on our grandchildren's; they know we know we'll get little or nothing out of this ("Citing calculations by the Tax Policy Center, Mr. Daschle said that a person making more than $1 million a year would save $24,000 in taxes under Mr. Bush's plan while a person earning from $40,000 to $50,000 a year would save only $76").

Not that this is going to stop them, of course.