You can't make this stuff up: Gov. Jon Corzine is balancing his budget on the ______ of impotent old men.  The state budget proposed by Corzine this week proposes the elimination of erectile dysfunction drugs from two state programs that helps senior citizens pay for prescription drugs.

The budget will stop the state Pharmaceutical Assistance to the Aged and Disabled (PAAD) and Senior Gold programs from paying for erectile dysfunction drugs, like Viagra.

In an unrelated matter, the Corzine administration is also proposing a ban on bikini waxes.  The state Division of Consumer Affairs is seeking a regulation that prohibits the removal of "superfluous hair from the ...abdomen by use of depilatories, waxing or tweezing." 

Limitations on erectile dysfunction drugs and the removal of pubic hair are reminiscent of the Florio administration, which sought a sales tax on toilet paper and sought to regulate runny eggs.  The state Department of Health had required restaurants to cook eggs in their entirety to 140 degrees in an effort to stop the spread of salmonella.  Gov. Jim Florio dropped both proposals without haste.