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...is the funniest.

I dropped out of school for a semester to campaign for Barack Obama. And now IÕm asking myself whether I spent four months living with my aunt and going door to door in Dayton, Ohio, just so we could have a stimulus plan written by a bunch of moderate Republicans and conservative Democrats in the Senate.

I donÕt know how many times we need to go over this, but this is actually a real-life version of what Obama promised during the campaign. DidnÕt you jump up and cheer when your guy promised that heÕd get Republicans and Democrats to work together?

I wanted them to work together on global warming, not on cutting money for Head Start out of the stimulus.

And Obama feels your pain. He always said the bipartisan path was going to be rocky, but this week the going was so rough that the great trailer-tractor of stimulus blew out several tires on the shoals of post-partisanism. It was embarrassing Ñ the President of the United States held White House negotiations with people who had already announced that they had no intention of voting for his bill. He let minority-party subleaders lecture him about whatÕs wrong with redistribution of wealth. He had a bipartisan Super Bowl party! But he still wound up cooling his heels, waiting for word from the newly hatched moderate caucus on what would happen next. This is the group that was led by Susan Collins of Maine. In November, we apparently elected Collins and her fellow Maine Republican, Olympia Snowe, to help run the country. And you wasted all that time thinking about Joe Biden.

Too, too funny.

Gail obviously doesn't understand that pushing aside failed Republican economic policies in favor of proven Democratic ones (aka the ones people actually voted for in November) is the old kind of bi-partisanship.

The new kind involves talking a lot about compromise, then giving the Money People what they want.

After all, it's their country, and Obama knows it. He always has.