On the bedside table:
Article: New Push in Congress to Throw in the Kitchen Sink...
More from the heads they win, tails we lose file:
"The tax provisions of the Foreclosure Prevention Act, which consumer groups and labor leaders say amount to government handouts to big business, show how the credit crisis, while rattling the housing and financial markets, has created beneficiaries in the power corridors of Washington...lawmakers, and the lobbyists who seek to influence them, recognize a golden opportunity when they sense that the political winds virtually guarantee a bill’s passage, and the housing crisis is just such a time." More >>
Read "Big Breaks for Business in Housing Bill"
From Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run: Louise: "He is always very depressed. I think that if he'd been a successful criminal, he would have felt better. You know, he never made the 'ten most wanted' list. It's very unfair voting; it's who you know."
Advice to the bungling Virgil Starkwell: Run for public office-- the big score is ripe for the picking in the disaster exploitation racket-- after all, the fix is in.