Marc Cooper's Take On The $100 Bribe

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have come up with their own farcical plan. They want to send taxpayers a $100 gas rebate check. But with a greasy string attached: the same bill that would provide the niggardly rebate would also open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling. Hell, why not go all the way
and offer the American people a more robust bribe: say $500 for each family in exchange for the rights of oil companies to drill in any and all ecologically sensitive areas for the rest of eternity?

I never really can tell if I am with Cooper or against Cooper, half the time. But on this, I'm with Cooper.

P.S., anyone that works niggardly into contempory political commentary, correctly, has some cajones, in my book.