[LostInBayport]

feb 24 3009

Relax, folks...we've got plenty of time.

Seriously, though, this is getting so bloody ridiculous. Do these congressional simpletons realize that this money they are spending has to be produced by the private sector, a sector that is contracting due to a slumping economy? In other words, they are making promises they may not be able to keep. This is like sitting in the passenger seat while the drunk behind the wheel floors the gas pedal and says, "Watch this!"

[Nuc1]

Facing a portrait of President Obama on the opposite wall, Panetta said that under the Bush administration, there was at times “a deliberate effort to not develop firm ground rules” about congressional notification “in order to be able to do this in a haphazard manner depending on what the issues were.”

As he closes in on the head light of the oncoming train!