Watch Out for That Tree

Jonah Goldberg says that Congressional Republicans are about to walk into a trap:

The real reason the stimulus package will be gigantic is not that the smartest people with the best ideas say it needs to be. It’s that Obama’s real priority is to get the bill out as quickly as possible, which means every constituency gets something, including Republicans. Indeed, Republicans are a priority because if he can bribe them into supporting the bill, that might prevent them from campaigning against it in 2010 if it proves ineffective or counterproductive.

Just because they’ve been warned doesn’t mean they’ll see it, however.