The "mainstream" press might be that way because the truth is this is a $600 billion take-away from the entire people of the US.

To call it a "stimulus" is to cave in to conservative nonsense. It's a looting of the government for the benefit of the rich.

And the "mainstream" will see it that way because they are not ideologically biased against paying for the system in which the rich have already prospered.

Bush will throw the middle class a bone. A bit like a bank robber throwing $20 bills to the people he passes on the way to the hideout. Those people, middle class conservatives, will say they don't care what the robber got, what it cost the people as a whole, they got their $20.

Short-sighted. A non-functioning missile defense, enormous military expenses with no military enemy in sight, and bald-faced aggression in the face of an economy headed into the tank, and then depriving the government of the income needed to function minimally for others than the military-oil-industrial barons is irresponsible.

Arf