Rich Lowry has a terrific column today about the scary new prescription drug entitlement that's about to roll through Congress with hardly a whimper of protest from either side. He says:

It's the iron rule of American politics: What Granny wants, Granny gets. Right now what she wants is someone else to pay for her prescription drugs, not because she can't afford them, but because paying their cost is irritating --and Granny doesn't want to be irritated.

The only shortcoming of Lowry's column is that he completely ignores the legions of Republican panderers who are all in favor of this new federal sinkhole as well. After all, both branches of Congress are controlled by Republicans.

To use P.J. O'Rourke's phrase, we can't afford to keep "Guilding the Gramps" for much longer at this rate.