By now it's the talk of Washington that the House and Senate are at odds over how far to go in stimulating the economy (as if the free market were a quasi-sexual organ). But House speaker Nancy Pelosi subtly tried a new strategy yesterday, one that's almost cute in its everyday logic. Since the House cut out billions of dollars from its S-Chip health care bill last year to please the Senate, Pelosi said, it's only right that the Senate give her some love on economic aid:
[I]n the interest of moving the legislation along, we took the bipartisan bill that the Senate had, which didn't have what we in the House had put forth, but we took that bill and ran with that. I hope that the Senate will return the favor and take this bill and run with it...
Aw, we hear you. But this is Washington. People like to fight.
