Short Stories, Long Odds

Last night, I’m watching CNN. There’s a Democratic senator talking about Bush’s budget, the spending Bush’s budget doesn’t include [like the war(s) we're fighting or the cost of Social Security reform] and this Democrat has a chart. Half of the chart is covered up. The Democrat is saying something like this:

“Bush only wants you to think about this part of his budget, the next two years, and he doesn’t want you to think about what the things he’s cutting are, and he doesn’t want you to think about what the unlisted expenditures will do to the budget, and he certainly doesn’t want you to think about what’s going to happen to the deficit and the national debt after this year here”.

(Democrat points to right where the chart is covered up.)

“So, why doesn’t he want you to think about the rest of this? This part he’s hiding from you?”

(Senator starts to uncover his chart)

(CNN CUTS BACK TO THE DESK WHERE WOLF BLITZER IS SITTING THERE AND IS ALL LIKE)

“Coming up next: psychic detectives! Are they real?”

I had thought CNN was getting a little weird, and now I know that they’re like FOX Lite or something.

If anyone else saw that, I would really love to know who the unlabelled Democrat with the chart was.