Tax rebates are coming.

This is a great plan by the Bush Administration, except that the Democrats, while realizing that it's a great plan, threaten to doom it unless certain concessions were made. For instance: 35M families who make at least $3,000 but don't pay taxes would get $300 rebates.

'Scuse me, but how in hell could someone who doesn't pay into something get a rebate on it? Only in the Democrat mind, where buying votes from those who've chosen to not help themselves leads to such outlandish ideas.

Even better, there were some Democrat crackpots like Charles Rangel (NY) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA), the Hero of the Chappaquiddick, who were very unhappy that arrangements to include additional benefits such as extending unemployment benefits for workers whose benefits have run out and plans to increase food stamp payments were left out of the plan.

Rangel said, "I do not understand, and cannot accept, the resistance of President Bush and Republican leaders to including an extension of unemployment benefits for those who are without work through no fault of their own," Rangel said.

Yeah. Unemployed people are without work through no fault of their own. More socialist hand-wringing.