12 Million Children Left Behind

The Liquid List has an excellent bit about the new tax cut that just passed, and includes a transcript from a press conference with Ari Fleischer, where he tries, essentially, to avoid admitting that, in order to get the dividend tax-cut for the rich, they left 12,000,000 kids whose families make between $10,500 and $26,625 out of luck when it comes to the additional $400 per child tax credit that the administration has been promoting as proof that "everyone" will benefit from this round of tax cuts.