PERHAPS *THIS* WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND...

Tonight we learn the US Senate wants to give each taxpayer $100 to, you know, help out with our gas expenses.

It seems something of a hollow gesture. If you've got an SUV or minivan, $100 will get you one full tank of gas, and about 2/3rds of a second tank.

Read further down the story, you learn that the Senate has attached an ammendment to the bill that would allow drilling in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge.

Is it out of line to suggest that the Senate is attempting to bribe every taxpayer into going along with drilling in ANWR? Come on, Senate! You can do better. Duke Cunningham got a boat, the least you can do is get us all mopeds or something.

Of course, the joke will still be on us. If you think about it, the Senate is trying to bribe us with our own money.

Oh well. Keep the money. I can't afford a tank of gas, but I can't afford the interest payments on the bribe the Senate wants to pay me, either.