Your theory, possible, but I think rather unlikely. I do think something had to happen to keep things from sliding even worse, no, not a fear thing at all, but rather a common sense thought of do nothing and things could get extremely worse, or at least choke it off to stem the bloodshed until a longer term solution is found.

That said, depending on how it's drafted, the short term solution may help or hurt things and this one, I just don't know and I have not heard whether the Senate passed this thing on Friday.

Knowing Bush and Co, anything is potentially possible.