Warning: Bi-partisanship Ahead

As the sign would suggest, Congress is back in session and the President has a looming(?) recession on his hands so what better opportunity for everyone to put aside this counterproductive and nasty partisanship than to join hands and slop at the trough!

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Article here from the AP documents the White House’s willingness to work with a Democrat-controlled Congress and visa versa in cobbling together a stimulus package. And why shouldn’t everyone put aside their differences…? From the way this package is shaping up, there’s something in here for everybody: tax cuts for the Republicans and unemployment benefits for the Democrats to name a few.

We don’t know how we feel about this rebate business. Look, don’t get us wrong – less money in their pockets and more money in ours is always a good thing its just that we feel cheapened, used…. Like we are being paid-off in return for some unbeknownst service that we performed. My g*d… so what did really happen last night?

And as we’ve commented before, we understand the compassion and sentiment behind the unemployment benefits but being fairly astute judges of human nature, we don’t think it takes an economist to figure out that extending unemployment bennies only extends unemployment. Wait, maybe it does. Read here.

In fact, if we’re getting our rebate from the general till and these unemployment bennies are also from the till then who’s paying for all this? Pffft. You know, who cares? They’re all playing nicely together in DC right now and that’s all that matters. Take your rebate and just shut-up. Hooray, bipartisanship!

KT, has some thoughts on stimulus here.