The bailout and the economic stimulus, are two very different bills. Yes we knew Bailout-Barack was in favor of continuing the government give-a-way.
But this "economic stimulus" is not even an economic stimulus. It's simply a pay-back to political supporters. $100 million for a bridge in Wyoming? $24 Million for Honey-bee insurance? How do either of those help the economy?
Why can't Wyoming cancel unemployment compensation for a few months, and pay for their own bridge? They didn't have the bridge a few years back when the economy was good, so why would it help now?
Honey-bee insurance? Yeah, we need a "stimulus" for the massive honey-bee insurance crisis that is facing the nation.
Some of the stimulus is simply to pay welfare payments that states are overdrawn for. How does that help the economy? What's going to help the economy is for people to get up and go to work, not to sit at home waiting for a welfare check.
In other words, the Stimulus is a big massive pork, lobbyist payoff. It has nothing to do with the economy, or the bailout. It's simply Overspend-Obama, screwing over the entire country. He didn't run on it. It wasn't in his campaign. And no one, who knows what's in it, wants it, other than his political supporters that are getting paid off.
And no, I do not think McCain would ever have tried something like this if he had been elected. (granted he'd have done many other things I would have been ticked off about)