Senate bailout passes (with lard)

The Senate took the failed House bill and sexed it up with a few juicy (and often unrelated) components to win some more votes.  It passed this evening.

Some of the additions:

• Increasing FDIC insurance to $250,000 from $100,000 (the maximum you get back if your bank goes under)
• Renewables and "renewables"
  
• Extending the renewable energy credits for wind and biofuel for 1 year, and for other technologies for 2 years
• Lots of coal related tax credits (for things like "refined coal," "advanced" coal and "coal gasification")
• Tax credits for plug-in hybrid cars
  
• Mental health parity for health insurance (yay!)

And then there are a few smaller items like this:

• SEC. 503. EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE TAX FOR CERTAIN WOODEN ARROWS DESIGNED FOR USE BY CHILDREN.
• SEC. 325. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF DUTY SUSPENSION ON WOOL PRODUCTS

I think I agree with Paul Krugman that this stinks, but may be necessary.