Hurry up, we're in dire straits. Actually, why don't you sit and wait whilst I romance the wife?

The Democrats in Congress claimed that it was so vitally important that their "stimulus" bill be enacted right now that they broke their promise to hold off the vote for 48 hours so that legislators and the public could read and digest the 1,071 page monument to socialism.

Well, it passed the Senate on Friday, so why hasn't the Messiah signed it yet? Oh, it seems he'll take care of that sometime on Tuesday, you know, when he gets around to it. He's currently too busy jetting off to Chicago for a romantic three-day Valentine's weekend with the Mrs., including a romantic dinner at a place called Table Fifty-Two. He's apparently so stressed out that he needs to take some time off after just three weeks on the job.

What was the all-fired hurry, then? Let people read the bill over the long weekend, have Congress vote on it first thing on Tuesday, then courier it right over to the White House for the obligatory signing photo-op. It still gets signed at the same time, and the legislators (along with us poor peasants, who actually have to fund this monstrosity) could actually read the darned thing before they blindly voted on it.

Ah, the perks of power. Claim extreme urgency and that the country is in imminent danger of melting down in order to ram through a bill without any debate or discussion, and then go ahead and take your own sweet time signing it.

What arrogance.