I hope they’ll listen to Senator Bayh.

[Thursday afternoon update]

Stephen Spruielle makes a good point (that sort of occurred to me at the time):

If one accepts the dubious proposition that government spending is required to mitigate the effects of the recession, how can one oppose higher spending that would take place this year — especially after voting for the trillion-dollar stimulus package? All this handwringing over the size of the omnibus from the likes of Bayh and Specter is just comical. It’s like listening to a guy who downed an entire bottle of tequila lecture his buddies on the dangers of taking one more shot.

Sometimes it seems like the lunatics are running the asylum.

[Bumped]