The Democrats and Republicans put their temporary political futures on the line

The newest version of the stimulus bill passed the house with zero Republican votes (again) and 7 Democratic defectors, it then went to the Senate where all but three Republicans voted against it, and the white house, sensing the urgency of the moment, even had Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio flown from his mother's wake to Washington to cast his vote.
And so it is that President Obama and his new super-majority congress wrote their future only 3 weeks into his administration.
The Washington Post weighs in here for the first time since the great depression, it is now almost completely up to the federal government to rescue the economy.