President Obama proposes to re-kill the D.C. voucher program

Just when I resolve to follow Bob Hockett's commendable example, and try to assume the best even when I suspect the assumption is unwarranted, the President proposes to kill off the D.C. voucher program (again).  I'm sorry -- this is a mean, spiteful, unjust, and pandering thing of him to do.  It does not suggest, in Bob's words, an attachment to the "right thing."

UPDATE:  I didn't notice it at the time, but David Brooks was prescient, the other day, in his (very good) op-ed ("Flood the Zone"):

Every once in a while, the Obama administration will promulgate a policy that is truly demoralizing. A willingness to end the District of Columbia school voucher program was one such case. The decision to force Catholic social service providers to support contraception and other practices that violate their creed is another. . . .