We are suppose to pay executives bonuses for running a company into the ground just so we can then collect 10 billion in taxes from them? What sense does that make?

The bonuses will be paid by us. We get back maybe 30% of what we pay them? So if we are suppose to get 10 billion in taxes from those bonuses then it will cost us 30 billion to get back the 10 billion in taxes.

What am I missing or who's fooling who?

Late Addition:
Here's 20 billion Savings Measure!
If we give them 30 billion and get back 10 billion, that puts us out 20 billion. Give the banks about 30 billion less and keep the salary caps, puts us ahead by 20 billion.

You would have thought the election would have taught them that lesson.

Can I tell you, I think he's got more weapons an assortment of arrows in his quiver that we have yet to see?

It will make it easier for Obama to make them the enemy of the process.

It is easier to hit a target you can see. Obama has given the republican's time to clarify their objections to the stimulus, to reject his bipartisan olive branch and to let Limbaugh and McCain rise to leadership positions in the current debate. The republicans have now given Obama a bunch of targets to hit. But Obama doesn't need to strike against any of those targets. All he has to do is educated the public about what the program really is. As soon as the public begins to understand the situation we are in, who got us here and what a stimulus is suppose to be, I suspect the republican's goose will be cooked and the die for future debates on the issue largely set.

Today's Gallup poll shows Obama way ahead of Republicans in the stimulus debate in spite of the help they have gotten from the media in distorting the facts of the stimulus. Obama was always in the position of strength going into this process. Republicans who were on the defensive were invited into the process by the President only to find their intention was always to oppose instead of finding common ground. They pushed back the hand of friendship the was put out to them.

Let's face it. Obama won the election in large measure because he was able to bypass the media's "journalistic balance" policy. Both sides of the story does not equal truth. The support the we gave him allowed him to tell his story in his own way. Now he is on the road again, in an even better position than he was during the general election. His poll numbers are much higher now, he has the benefit of winning the general, a successful transition, inauguration,  and the bully pulpit. Obama is going to sell, sell, sell. He is going to talk jobs, jobs, jobs.

I think the Republicans are going to look tired, found lacking and caught flat footed.

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