The good news is that in an almost shocking outbreak of common sense, "A House appropriations subcommittee yesterday approved a foreign aid budget for next year that would reverse the deep cuts President Bush proposed for international family planning programs he himself once described as among the best ways to prevent abortion." The bad news is that the same committee will be scaling back the already scaled-back Millenium Challenge Corporation, one of just a tiny handful of worthwhile ideas to have come out of this administration so far.