The bank plan is designed to get the toxic assets off the bank balance sheets in the near term so the credit markets will unfreeze, a vital step if we’re ever going to climb out of this recession. The Obama budget is a behemoth plan for long term Federal spending that will more than triple the deficit and add many trillions to our national debt.

/it’s not inconsistent to praise one and scorn the other, they’re unrelated concepts, apples and oranges