It's the timing, stupid.

Ramming a trillion dollar bill down the throats of Americans that is 796 pages long and that changes like a neurotic chameleon by the hour, is wrong and frankly fascist. Camille Paglia via her Salon.com blog

Surely common sense would dictate that when Congress is doling out fat dollops of taxpayers' money, due time should be delegated for sober consideration and debate. The administration's coercive rush toward instant action, accompanied by apocalyptic pronouncements of imminent catastrophe, has put its own credibility on the line.

The fact that Harry Reid seems to think that wielding a threat - "we may have to work next week (a normal vaca week for the hard working pols)if we don't get this done by Friday" tells you alot about the gravity that our honored Solons feel about this bill.

If the car salesman knows that you have to walk off the lot with a car that day, who do you suppose gets the best end of the deal?

Oink.

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