Iraq War Rages On, and Congress Holds a Midnight Session...

...to give Paris Hilton a tax cut on money she never earned. Over at DailyKos, David Grossman comments on the Republicans' attempt to permanently repeal the estate tax:

So the Republicans in the U.S. House stayed up until almost 2am tonight to give Paris Hilton some extra money (there's something funny about millions of dollars being showered on Paris Hilton in the dead of night, but I'll leave that joke for someone else to finish).

How much extra money? Try a cool $91,089,200.

Read the whole post to find out more (and try not to vomit).

Any Democrat who fails to use this for political advantage should be drummed out of the party.