Destroying the Bushes, currently the main beneficiaries of the southern strategy, would draw a line under the affair.

ECONOMIST: A curse on both their houses

Someone should inform the White House that tax hikes on a shrinking group of smokers to finance payments to a growing number of beneficiaries is not a healthy fiscal strategy, as the states have found out by spending the proceeds of the Medicaid tobacco settlement.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: The President's Priorities

The contrapuntal strategy is to own airlines like AMR and Continental, beneficiaries of lower kerosene quots.

FORBES: A good year for xenophobes