It will impress Republican Congressman and open the way to a wonderful new era of bipartisan comity as politicians of middle and right sit down and get serious about solving the country's problems rather than playing partisan politics, creating, in effect, a centre-right to radical right government of national unity.

Just like watering down a stimulus package with corporate tax cuts with little or not multiplier impact, actually, and look what a tremendous success that was in generating broad based bipartisan support.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.