That'll Learn 'Em!

In an incredible move, the Bush Administration proposes to cut $3 million out of the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget to help pay for $7 million in attorneys' fees that were awarded to the plaintiffs in a ten-year legal fight that proved grotesque mismanagement of the various Indian Trust programs! In other words, the White House is going to punish Indian Country for daring to prove that the federal government squandered BILLIONS of dollars that should've gone to various tribes under a number of treaties going back overe 100 years. I know nothing this Administration does should surprise me anymore, but this does.