I will never forget the time he visited H. Rodham Clinton and "Chuckles" Schummer right after 9/11, and asked them flat out how much money they wanted. They looked like kids in a candy store, and blurted out that they "needed" $40 billion dollars (amazing how they could figure that out, mere hours after the attack).
You could tell that they thought he'd be a bit shrewder than he was -- a bit smarter than he was.
You could see the look of surprise on their faces when he immediately replied sure, ok, $40 billion it is, you'll get that amount.
(I could also imagine them thinking what idiots they were, for not asking for a hundred billion!)
He's always been s sucker for a hard-luck story -- as long as he's able to reach into the next guy's pocket to fish out the checkbook!
It is annoying, to say the least.
The only upside to all this money-vomiting is that I think part of the reason he did it was to prop up the economy.
Since I'm not an economist and don't even resemble one, I don't understand is why it hasn't caused massive inflation. Or, why pumping up the national debt hasn't caused it. Yet. Tax cuts, good. Pork spending by ignorant self-serving pols, bad.
Sad, but true. What's sadder is that this is true of about 90% of our politicians.