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Despite all the fanfare that has greeted the cuts won by the GOP's moderate dealmakers, with interest this is still a $1 trillion bill. According to Republican aides, the Senate stimulus compromise will end up costing at least $7 billion more than the House bill. So the dealmakers haven't exactly struck a blow for fiscal responsibility here. Useful idiots indeed. Now we'll see if the Democrats have their own defectors.