Scanning my Reuters politics news headlines on Yahoo, I see that:

French, Americans would back strike on Iran: poll

Really?

One would assume that this means Americans and the French, when polled, felt that a military strike right now on Iran was a good idea.  I was a little dismayed about that, until I got into the details...

I don't understand why Bush would want to focus on Health Saving Accounts (HSAs) as he reportedly is doing in his upcoming State of the Union address.

I know why his administration wants them, and I know why small-government conservatives want them. Ezra Klein nicely summed up their beliefs on the subject in his post on Tapped, along with a great analysis of their effect, as noted by VirginiaDem earlier today.

Of course, as the post explains, this is a terrible policy. What I'm wondering is... why do they think they can get away with this when they didn't get away with it on Social Security?  And if they don't think they can get away with it, why are they doing it?