WHEN A “HIDDEN AGENDA” IS OUT IN THE OPEN: Roger Kimball mocks the NYT’s budget-crisis editorial. “The goal of the idea the Times calls ‘pernicious’ is to restore fiscal sanity to America. Along the way, public sector unions should be decertified and once again made illegal, as they were until the late 1960s when the spendocrats got put in charge. There is nothing hidden about this agenda, or rather call it a goal, an ambition, a consummation devoutly to be wished for. I only hope that its lack of hiddenness becomes ever more obvious so that the people who pay the bills understand what a racket has been going on in their state and local legislatures, to say nothing of the monstrousness that is Washington.”

UPDATE: Union boss thinks Roger Kimball is mentally retarded. And you, too, if you want these cuts.