Stimulus concession

In a front page piece in today's newspaper, LAT reporter Noam Levey, a Democrat propagandist, first says the passage of the stimulus bill yesterday by the Senate was a bipartisan compromise. In the very next paragraph, he says the measure passed because of "a concession by Senate Democrats." It can't be both.

In actual fact, the Democrats got all they could get. They couldn't get more because they didn't have the votes. They wasted a week or more beating a dead horse, something they repeatedly have done since they took over Congress, which is why they seldom get anything done. For some reason, they can't face the fact that their margin in the Senate is very small. Either that or they can't resist the pressure being applied by their base, which is even less realistic. The WSJ argues it's about adding to the Democrat margin in the November election. That would be rational, at least.