This is going to grow into a much larger story in the coming months. The original $700 billion in TARP money is not nearly enough to grease the credit markets, buy up bad assets and provide foreclosure relief to millions of homeowners. After the inaugural parties, are over, the Obama administration deals with the task of remedying the country's economic hangover. First step: spending the remaining $350 billion in TARP money (actually a little less, because some of it is already spoken for).
Why should the Bush administration have all the spending fun?