We have to be a party, like the government, that says we want to bring the deficit down, but the fiscally realistic thing rightnow is to get our country back working.
And what is really galling is that in the huge so-called stimulus bill, a provision that made certain that AIG executives wouldn't get outlandish bonuses was watered down to the point of pure meaninglessness by the Treasury Department (which rightnow is staffed by Mr. Geithner and seemingly nobody else) and by Chris Dodd, the Connecticut senator.