I may be wrong, as I'm only hearing about this from the UK, but I heard opponents of the bailout from both sides saying that they would have voted for it if it had been the bailout alone, but the proposal's authors couldn't resist the usual practice of stacking it with other measures they wanted to push through - starting with a package of tax cuts, which sounds like a great idea for a Government that's about to borrow like never before.

Unfortunately, in order to bring round the holdouts they will probably now try another business-as-usual tactic and sweeten them by adding in their favourite pork items, thus repelling a different bunch of people.

Over here we call this "rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic".