Pork! Pork! Pork!*

Breaking news: Bush Signs Bailout After House Passage

Hmm, what does it take to get fifty-seven Representatives to change their minds?

Four hundred and forty eight pages of pork barrel spending, is all, introducing an additional $150 billion's worth of tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, import curbs, preferences and other protectionist and/or interventionist measures!

In old money, that's about eight pages of legislation and $2.6 billion per Representative. OK, we could apportion some of that to Senators who may have been wavering, but my point stands.

* As ever, no offence meant to this 'blog's many Jewish readers, who by rights shouldn't be reading this anyway, it being the Sabbath and all. Shabbat Shalom, you guys!