The reason I call them Zombie Deals is that by all accounts, they're dead Jim dead! On the other hand it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of the D.C. Neoliberal Consensus to resurrect incredibly bad ideas that benefit only their Billionaire Paymasters and International Mega-Corporations. How many times does the Debt/Deficit Hawk Grand Bargain Plan for privatizing or eliminating our meager Social Safety Net have to be staked through the heart, decapitated, and torn to dust by the sunlight of truth before the Beltway Bozos and their Media Jesters get it?

Is it any wonder they need brains? Theirs have rotted away.