Paul Krugman:

What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses?

Answer: Susan Collins, Ben Nelson and Arlen Specter. And it's Obama's fault for being bipartisan.

If you want to see how Republicans govern during an economic crisis at the state level then look to California.  From Robert Cruickshank, the Courage Campaign, writes:

When we watched the helicopter carry George W. Bush away from our nation's capital many of us hoped we had finally seen the end of lawlessness as governing policy by Republicans in our country. And though President Obama has moved to restore the rule of law in Washington D.C., California Republicans are demonstrating the problem persists here in the Golden State.

David Dayen has written about how Mike Villines' insistence that Republicans would only vote for a budget deal by trading votes on new taxes for votes to gut labor and environmental protections were a likely violation of Section 86 of the California Penal Code

Sign their petition to UpHold The Law.