Auto Bailout Pork

We get votes the old fashioned way - we buy 'em.  For example, in this ridiculous Detroit Big Three bailout going around now, one House vote was purchased by putting a provision for pay raises for federal judges.  Excuse me?  What does that have to do with the automakers?  Can't we just debate a bill based on it's own merits, and either vote for or against it?  Do we really have to fill them all with pork to get anything done?  Or is it because without the pork, none of the bills would pass, because everybody knows they're just government crap...