Nevada: Dc

You would think with a deepening recession, ballooning budget deficit, two ongoing wars, etc., Congress would have better things to do than take the time to craft and vote on symbolic fluff bills like making March 14 "National Pi Day" (get it).  You'd think so.  But this is Congress, where in their bizarro world naming a day after something or someone apparently makes everyone knowledgeable on said subject, or so they like to think before moving on to the more important work of garnering earmarks for their district or tomorrow night's fundraising dinner with DC lobbyists.

So, naturally, Pi Day passed overwhelmingly.  Only 10 house members voted against the measure (30 apparently had better things to do) and all were Republicans.  And one of those 10, thankfully, was Nevada's Dean Heller.

With the latest stimulus bill version topping 775 pages and the details seemingly changing on an hourly basis I wonder if anybody in DC actually knows what they are voting on?  Do they even have it to read?  Do we?

Doesn't it sound familiar.  A big bill being rushed through with dire warnings of an imminent collapse of the country, wrapped in patriotism and never actually being read by those who will vote on it.  Look how the Patriot Act turned out.  Will Americans have buyer's remorse, this time to the tune of a borrowed $800 billion, again?