Brilliant.

Could we not get an injunction against an Act that, by their own admission, the lawmakers have not read?

I worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. and handled many of the slime-coated blocks of paper Gerard describes so cuttingly. And my experience and belief is that a rational, informed, NEUTRAL expert has read, before passage, perhaps one percent of all laws ever passed by congress.

After passage, disruption, heartbreak and litigation ensure that all the words will be scrutinized very, very carefully. Always, the law of unintended consequences has its way.

Stimulus is a larger-than-ever outrage, but not in form or style a new one. Alas.

Thank you, sir, for another unique blend of lyrical writing and sharp political insight. You are an internet treasure. One comment on your theses that no one person wrote this sorry tome. It certainly is the most logical explanation for what has happened. The obvious complaints of not enough time to read have not been accompanied by anything resembling a coherent defense based on "well, I have and its marvelous piece of social engineering for these reasons..." The lack of a convincing knowledgeable defender seems to imply no unified authorship. In other words, we really leaping blindfolded off a ledge which could be anywhere from 10 inches to 1,000 feet off the ground.

The consequences are unforeseeable. For example, what happens of several members of Congress come forward with a different document and say that this is the bill that they voted on? How is the authenticity of any one complete document established? This isn't to say the monstrosity can be derailed but it can be mocked and denigrated in a 1000 ways. For example, recreate Proximire's Golden Fleece awards as a kind of weekly internet TV event a la American Idol; crash read and pull apart the actual and unintended consequences, recruit a legal SWAT team, trigger court cases, and launch civil suits and Constitutional challenges (the ban on sectarian activities on university campuses, for example); and, as this campaign is gaining steam, launch recall petitions for major Democrat supporters of this stink bomb. These are just keyboard thoughts, but more intelligent people than I should already be having planning meetings. Somebody needs to get out in front on this or more of these will be railroaded through.

The Dems have sold us a bridge too far to nowhere.

With all that money down the toilet, they ought to rename it "defecate spending."

Folks,

There are things called elections. We voted these clowns into power, and we are responsible for their acts or failures to act.

If you don't like what they've done (and I sure as Hell don't), then don't vote for them at the next election, due in November 2010, or maybe sooner for state and local offices.

Throw the bums out!

Hale Adams
Pikesville, People's Democratic Republic of Maryland
Official Motto of the state legislature: "State constitution? What state constitution? We don't need no steenking state constitution!"

P.S. As you can tell from my address, why yes, I am a masochist. But somebody's gotta reform the place......

Awesome, Gerard. I feel like I'm on a moving sidewalk, being propelled through a Kafka novel.

How many years will it take for Our Dear Leader and the Cannibal Party to destroy us all? One election cycle or less?

What do you mean we voted him in, right collectively. No, Velociman, it's more like those rotating knives in that designer abbatoir in the Monty Python sketch. By the way, how'd the 'Bloody Ebsen' go.

Promise me you'll stop using the phrase "perishing republic" when you end your posts. I can't take it anymore! It's bad enough without your being so graphic. I mean, couldn't you just substitute the phrase "rearranging deck chairs on...."

Oh nevermind.

I think Blake was more concise.

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Now we must take an accounting of all who created this legislation and any and all who recieve the money. When the great Republich falls, they shall all be the first to swing.

Decisions and actions have consequences. You took our money, destroyed our country and our children's future.

You deserve no mercy and will get none.

The socialists had eight long years to figure out what they were going to do once they took power. I am not an economist so I defer to a Harvard economist. One of their own so to speak. In case any readers haven't heard him:

Professor Robert Barro:

http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/02/an_interview_with_robert_barro.php">http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/02/an_interview_with_robert_barro.php">http://business.theatlantic.com/2009/02/an_interview_with_robert_barro.php

"This is probably the worst bill that has been put forward since the 1930s. I don't know what to say. I mean it's wasting a tremendous amount of money. It has some simplistic theory that I don't think will work, so I don't think the expenditure stuff is going to have the intended effect. I don't think it will expand the economy. And the tax cutting isn't really geared toward incentives. It's not really geared to lowering tax rates; it's more along the lines of throwing money at people. On both sides I think it's garbage. So in terms of balance between the two it doesn't really matter that much."

Those that question this capper have already been called unpatriotic. So will there be room for dissent in the coming years or are lists being assembled as I write this? Are they going to go after one segment of patriots at a time? If I write that I'll fight for our Constitution, does that place a so called black mark next to my IP address by whomever is watching? If I say the politicians in Washington DC should be fiscally conservative and suggest that taxes are a form of extortion, am I therefore considered unpatriotic?

See for yourselves what double-speak we are dealing with in case you've missed the video of Reid explaining our Voluntary Tax System:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg

Are we actually living a sequel to Animal Farm with Reid playing Senator Ass Head?

Our Democrats want the Swedish Model. Even FDR knew that socialists like the Nazi's had to be dealt with. What did the Swedes do? "Ummm, we're neutral, oh, and here is some iron ore for your military, Herr Hitler".

I've lived in Europe. No thanks.

I wonder who Hussein was visiting this past week end in Chicago.

Fitzgerald, Rezko, Ayers, Burris, Wright, Blago, ACORN friends.....

Something more important than signing HIS bill on Saturday.

And folks, in case you thought total paranoia is setting in:

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/140410p.pdf

A directive signed into being by the President on 1/23/09 (no time to waste here folks)

Department of Defense

DIRECTIVE

NUMBER 1404.10
23 January 2009

USD(P&R)

SUBJECT: DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce

References: See Enclosure 1


1. PURPOSE. This Directive:

a. Reissues DoD Directive (DoDD) 1404.10 (Reference (a)) under a new title to establish the
policy through which an appropriately sized subset of the DoD civilian workforce is pre-
identified to be organized, trained, and equipped in a manner that facilitates the use of their
capabilities for operational requirements. These requirements are typically away from the
normal work locations of DoD civilians, or in situations where other civilians may be evacuated
to assist military forces where the use of DoD civilians is appropriate. These employees shall be
collectively known as the DoD Civilian Expeditionary Workforce. Members of the DoD
Civilian Expeditionary Workforce shall be organized, trained, cleared, equipped, and ready to
deploy in support of combat operations by the military; contingencies; emergency operations;
humanitarian missions; disaster relief; restoration of order; drug interdiction; and stability
operations of the Department of Defense in accordance with DoDD 3000.05 (Reference (b)).

To whom will these civilians be loyal? Our military swear an oath of allegiance to our Constitution. Is this the change we've been told about? Did the Nazi SA and SS get their "marching orders" by some similar Directive in socialist 1930's Germany?

All this wailing and gnashing of teeth after 8 years of idiot boy, aka "the MBA President."

You dittoheads crack me up.

Just a normal human reaction to three weeks of moron man, aka the GIMME president.

Colonized minds crack me up.