"This is really, really stupid."
Congress and Bush signed off on it.
Yes Congress and the President authorized this, and it was "really, really stupid" then as well.
Congress and Bush signed off on it.
Hardly the first time that congress and the president signed off on something really, really stupid, especially when it gets stuck in a large spending bill.
This particular stupidity was passed as section 159 of the " Deficit Reduction Act of 2005".