His people tell me that Congressman Davis missed the AIG vote today to attend a service for the father of one of his staff. For the record, he voted against the bailout bill last year.

"With unemployment at 17.8% in Scott County, 15.6% in Maury County, 12.8% in Warren County and similar figures on the rise throughout my district I don't think AIG executives need another fine Italian suit."

Actually, I think the bonuses are a drop in the bucket of what went wrong with the way that money was handled, seeing that tens of billions of dollars went to foreign banks.