Three Cheers for Bayh

Democratic Senator Evan Bayh wrote in the Wall Street Journal an op-ed piece criticizing the 2009 budget plan passed by the House for increasing spending by nearly 9%.  Even some Democrats are realizing the risks inherent in their party's efforts to increase spending at prodigious rates.

Republicans unity in opposition to the bill, with the support of Democrats like Bayh, can stop this spending splurge.