But what the hell, it's a lazy day anyway...

The bailout of Detroit, using TARP funds, is illustrative of the deficiencies inherent in crafting legislation in times of crisis, no matter how necessary. Blaming Hoekstra for it is disingenuous and not really credible.

The Wall Street bailout Bill creating TARP funds, is illustrative of the deficiencies inherent in Hoek$tra voting for such haphazard crafted legislation in times of alleged crisis, no matter how many corporate welfare advocates call for its necessity.  Blaming Detroit for using TARP funds is disingenuous and not really credible.

Cash for clunkers was a not-very good idea, but understandable, and no worse than a myriad of other little noticed ideas, such as tax credits for energy-efficient furnaces and the like, that government distributes willy-nilly still today.

Good Lord!  I should've stopped you at where you wrote "but understandable".  You sure do understand the art of projection well, don't you?  Ya, Cash for Clunkers... yessirree, there's another useless $3 billion pork barrel Pete p!ssed away.

...I'd be far more interested in a response to the points made in the Williamson article, and what evidence there is against it.