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You all are probably way out ahead of me on this, but I just realized that the 700 Billion Dollar Plan makes a great October Surprise (albeit in late September) - it has all the fear necessary to push voters’ buttons, with the plausible deniability of “We’d never play politics with something so serious.”

And, it has the added bonus of giving billions to Bush’s buddies before he bestows his final parting gifts: Christmas Presidential Pardons.

And that could very well explain Bush’s smirk to Christopher Cox on Friday:

And they were sly enough to have us all looking in the directions of Russia and Iran while they were planning this midnight massacre. But this time their war is on the American people.

It may not work this time, though - they’ve gone to the well one to many times with this kind of play, and it’s hard for taxpayers to get up the same head of steam for saving the wingtip set that they did for avenging 9/11.

As Sherrod Brown said in today’s hearings (h/t D-day):

I haven’t received one phone call from a constituent that’s been positive. I don’t think people making $50,000 a year are interested in bailouts out executives whose country club fees are many times that. Does Wall Street owe the American people an apology?

Music to my ears.

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