GOP running scared? The Republican National Committee, in an apparently blatant mangling of campaign finance laws, is sending threatening letters to TV stations in hopes of getting MoveOn's anti-Bush commercials pulled. How spooked must the GOP be by the momentum of this grassroots movement--and growing oust-Bush sentiments--to target a single advertisement? And on "soft money" grounds? The Republicans, let's not forget, are the ones who've dubbed their meet-and-greet fundraising visits with Tom DeLay and Bill Frist as children's and AIDs charity events.

Of course, maybe it's all just a way of taking the heat off of Bush for exploiting the 9/11 dead in his own ads. Or diverting our attention from the point of MoveOn's "Child's Pay" ad: a mushrooming deficit and an economy that shed 1.6 million jobs last year (including 588,000 people who left the job market last month alone) means our kids will be the ones left paying for Bush's irresponsible debts.