Instead of all the hissing and spitting by the usual suspects, can someone explain way we are about to spend $800 billion dollars on pork barrel projects without eveng thinking things through? Call it what you want, it looks like irresponsible excess spending and little else.

This is said to be so urgent that the public may not even get to read it before it is passed and signed. We should, at the very least, get to look at the final text for the 48 hours that Harry Reid and friends promised. Can you say "railroaded"?