MICKEY KAUS: How Is New Poverty Like New Coke? “Richard Bavier, a respected policy analyst with the OMB for many years, reams the Obama administration’s new bait-and-switch poverty line. … Bavier argues the new line is ‘carefully designed so that the public will think it is one thing when it is really something else.’” Kinda like when they were talking about stimulus, I guess. . . .