"Now maybe the Liberals know how the Conservatives felt last year when the Democrat Congress rammed Obamacare through (without even reading it)."

That comment, by "JamVee" on a Reuters story about last Saturday's near-100,000-strong protest crowd in Madison, perfectly sums up what has become the predominant arguing position of pro-Walker conservatives. This "shoe on the other foot" defense of Governor Scott Walker's budget bill stinks of revenge, not reason. But while there are many more solid reasons that the two bills are different, there really are ways in which the two pieces of legislation are the same—and, in one sense, they're exactly the same.

They say that travel broadens the mind, but for any hardy soul who journeyed through the Memorial Day edition of the Washington Post to approximate that experience, they'd have to move through the A-section back to front. That's because the op-ed section featured Robert Samuelson going through his near-annual romp through that old Beltway refrain: The swelling entitlements, they will kill us all!

In fact, Samuelson maintains, the only way to permit any residual sense of dignity for the aged and infirm who haven't had the common decency to die already is to just let both Social Security and Medicare drift into bankruptcy.