Here’s what I’m thinking: let’s sort out the questions of who defrauded whom of what before we start buying up worthless stocks willy nilly, shall we? The administration surely couldn’t want us to approve this enormous allocation of funds for liars and crooks. As several Senators posited yesterday, it’s not like the entire $700 billion-with-a-B is going to be spent in the next three months, right?

Unless folks are simply trying to enact a major public money grab ahead of official findings in criminal investigations and a handover of control of the government. That would be beyond the pale, though. You’d have to be a real crackhead to suspect something like that might be going on.