And it's not like we're going to find out the details of the deal - whether the concessions made were really worth the gain in the end. Without even getting into the more philosophical question of whether the federal government should be interfering in the economy in an ad hoc way like that - conservatives may remember the old Reagan line about the most terrifying words in the English language.

Of course the White House response was also petty in a different way - pretending a president can take the credit for jobs created while he's in power.