I'm a bit confused as to what you mean here. I appreciate your knowledge of what's really going on (you're absolutely correct in that nothing has been added to appease the GOP - it's all an attempt to bring blue dogs onboard), but your statement about bi-partisanship seems to be in contrast to the first part of your post.

If it was bi-partisan they *would* have been trying to appease the GOP... but they've totally shut the GOP out, and have, as you indicated in the first part of your post, spent an inordinate amount of time trying to get fiscally conservative democrats in line.

I'm just scratching my head at the timing of this. It wasn't remotely part of Obama's campaign platform - at least not as a predominant plank. He campaigned on getting us out of the middle east and getting the economy back on track. To date, despite the fact that the economy seems like a runaway train even after his stimulus bills, he's focusing on what will ultimately cost taxpayers more than any other federal program ever has.

I just. don't. get. it.