Why am I not surprised by HappySqurriel's interpretation. Being bipartisan doesn't mean you have to listen to the other side when they are being completely unreasonable. And the bill that finally came out of Congress was significantly different than the one that came out of committee.
And being bipartisan also doesn't mean making a bill worse just to satisfy people. That's like sawing a child in half to please two people. It just doesn't make any sense. Tax cuts are not as effective a solution in a situation where you are facing a liquidity trap like we are now. Tax cuts were great when you were facing stagflation like Reagan did. Tax cuts aren't a one size fits all solution, unlike every Republican apparently believes.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
