Once they lost the main tax cut issue, the Democrats decided to come back with the "tax cuts for the poor" routine.

Of course, the people who aren't getting the extra rebates* didn't pay the taxes in the first place, but this concept seems to be beyond most people. The Republicans are caving on this in the Senate, which figures. They know damn well they aren't going to be able to explain the issue in the face of Democratic demagoguing. The Democrat's bit on military families was a particular work of genius. Nobody does class warfare like they do.

I'm not getting too bent out of shape on this. It's not going to add much money to the package...heck, it would have been in there in the first place (it was part of the original House tax cut) if a couple of Senators (Republicans!) hadn't been so hard over on keeping the cut within a certain arbitrary limit. Probably not the hill we want to die on.

*Most already get a free check from the IRS from various low-income tax credits.