When P.T. Barnum said that, and he may not have,  he must have had Congress  in mind.  

Lord Obama Himself said he wouldn't sign a bill that hadn't had at least five days transparancy for vetting.  

Yet the stimulus bill was printed at Midnight last night.  Voted upon today. 

Lemme see.  How many days is that?

No one had a chance to vet it.  Not even the non-partisan Office of Management and Budget.  You can count on the fingers of a digitally challenged hand how many lawmakers of either party have even read one one/hundredth of the bill.  But Pelosi insisted on a vote nevertheless.

And some independent observers couldn't even vouch that some previously eliminated programs hadn't been slipped back in or some Republican faves tossed out in that closed door meeting that wouldn't admit Republicans.

So much for bi-partisanship.

Lord Obama Himself,  Himself,  said he wanted at least forty percent of the bill to be tax cuts.  News reports say the bill gave him only twenty-three percent.  

So much for His leadership.

Democrats also said that the other seventy three percent of the bill would go to stimulating jobs. 

Jobs,  jobs, jobs.  Remember those?

Turns out, even if it does, which is doubtful because so much of it is pure entitlement and pork spending, even if it does,  fifty percent of those monies won't be spent until 2011.

Ouch!  What about jobs NOW?

Uhhhhhh.....as Mondale asked Gary Hart .... Where's the beef?

This goes beyond party.  It's a betrayal of the people.  Congress as Judas.

A little langniappe:

In Elkhardt, home of Caterpillar, Obama urged the workers there, many of whom had been laid off because of the economy, to urge their representative, Aaron Shock, to vote for the bill.

Shock said he waited for half an hour in the hall where Your Lord Obama spoke and no one approached him.  In fact, Shock  said he's received over a thousand calls urging him to vote against the bill.

I'm sure all these hard working, out-of-work, blue collar guys and gals are all greedy, diehard Republicans, with lots of money in the bank, a boat, several SUV's and kids in private school.