I can't tell if this is all by design or if this is a Run away Train due to incompetence

Historically, this is the great Republican Achilles' heel — favoritism to the rich. The 2003 Bush tax-cut proposal is the biggest, baldest example since the 1920s, when Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon decided that if Congress wouldn't let him cut income-tax rates enough he'd just start giving money back, to individuals and corporations alike, through Treasury refunds, rebates and remissions. Given this recurrent thread over eight decades of GOP fiscal history, White House and congressional Republicans may be setting up a dangerous issue for the 2004 elections.

Still, you have to admire GOP chutzpah. Boldness often pays. Republicans are gambling that ordinary Americans are too numb or too dumb — either one works — to go beyond the 20-second sound bites to see who gets the meringue and who gets the filet mignon. They're gambling that John and Jane Q. Public won't comprehend a thinly disguised bailout of upper-income stock investors as another round of old GOP trickle-down economics.