Back to the original post; I'm of the opinion that the deal is about the best that we could expect to get - it's not necessarily fair, but then I don't remember there being any promises about fairness in politics, economics, or life itself, for that matter. Our next door neighbour is the Big Boy in the 'hood, and he tends to get what he wants, so I figure we came away from the party with at least something to show for our bitchin' - certainly more than we had two days ago, when Big Boy had the whole 5 billion.

Ergo, I'm not angry with S. Harper for cutting this deal with Dubbya; I think he did about as well as he could have and a whole hell of a lot better than Jean C. could/would do.