The talk in Albany and Manhattan is all of Governor Spitzer’s political impotence, but with one bold policy stroke Mr. Spitzer is about to show he is more powerful than the Washington Democratic leadership, not to mention President Bush.

Earlier this month, when President Bush vetoed a bill that the Democratic Congress had passed to saddle federal taxpayers with the health insurance costs of families earning more than $80,000 a year, the Democrats in Washington erupted in paroxysms of handwringing and moral posturing. “In a country as wealthy as ours, it is immoral to deny health care to our children. President Bush cares more about politics than our nation’s kids,” huffed a statement from Dr. Howard Dean’s Democratic National Committee.

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