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Congress and the Bailout’s Frankenstein Fix

Posted on October 1, 2008 - 9:55am at Blue Collar Muse
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One of the more memorable phrases from recent political history is “DOA”. A politician announced, during a recent session of Congress, there was no need to even bother sending the bill over for a vote because it was “DOA”, Dead on Arrival. The phrase immediately made its way into the modern political lexicon as even a cursory Google search reveals.

Congress generally knows when a bill is destined to fail due to internal opposition. For instance, the GOP under