PBS, no favorite of the neocons, stood to lose $22M with a delay.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jEqzyZfGUgUWJQfcJ98kJK_LiiOwD95V41187
and if the poor couldn't get their act together in 12 months, it's
unlikely they will in another 4.
Resodding the mall (wrecked by the wonderful outpouring of support for
the inauguration) may well be a worthwhile expenditure for congress, but
not in an emergency economic and job stimulation package. Several
analysts predict the Senate will take a lot of the lights of this
Christmas tree of special interests.
(I agree with you on the jet, but lets not forget that more from the
right side of the aisle voted against the big bank bailout last year
(yes, it was Bush's idea.) than the left side.)
Tom Piwowar wrote:
House voted it down. No delay.
The neocons are on a tear. They are probably pissed off that Citi was
stopped from spending $50,000,000 on a new airplane toy. So no TV for the
poor and no grass for the Washington Mall.
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