You couldn't make this stuff up! Is Washington on the same planet as the rest of us?

In the category of "You couldn't make this s*** up" I offer today's insanity.

According to CNN the House version of the stimulus bill was published last night at 11 p.m. It's reportedly some 1,000 pages long. Today the house voted and passed the bill. Now, dear friends, those are the facts.

I wonder how many of our highly paid representatives have had time to read the bill? Do they know what's in it? Have their large staffs had time to read and study the bill?

Several Republican's pointed this out. But, what the hey, according to Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colorado "But this bill is the right size and scope necessary to truly help us turn things around." Hey Ed, did you read the f****** bill? Did your staff? Or perhaps since the number is about the right size you just decided to go along.

Please understand, I don't know Ed Perlmutter. For all I know he might be a good Congressman. Nor am I particularly associated with either Republicans or Democrats. That said, I would point out that any process such as the one we are currently witnessing is just plain nuts. It's broken. Memory serves that some months back Congress played the same tune and sang the same song passing a bank bailout bill in which matter we were subsequently treated to an ongoing laundry list of inadequate oversight and misbehavior by the banks. It would seem that that worked so well that Congress thinks we should do it again!

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome. Might one reasonably conclude that Congress is insane? While I personally don't think that's so, I would observe the obvious - the process is seriously broken. Perhaps that's one of the reasons the country is in the mess it's in.

Food for thought. How about we change the process and see if we don't get better results. Just a foolish thought I know, but still ... .