Let Them Eat Cake?

With the budget situation as DIRE as it looks, one can understand why this story is making news: it reminds one of Maria Antoinette urging her subjects to eat cake in the face of a dearth of grain to make bread.

But while, the subject matter may deserve the story, one would hope that there are other similar stories that can be brought to press. Otherwise, the story makes it appear that a particular newspaper was picking on a particular Senator, with an (R) besides his name.