LAST CHANCE

There is one last chance to defeat this monstrosity of a “stimulus” bill - when it comes out of the House-Senate conference. Contact your congresscritter and urge him/her to vote it down. Here’s my two cents:

The size and variety of all the spending programs in this bill would make a drunken sailor look like a fiscal conservative. But the message is simple: Sign on the dotted line, and now, or All Is Lost. It brings to mind the used car salesman who warns that, if we dare step off the lot, if we don't ACT NOW to grab this souped-up Super Eight with all the trimmings, catastrophe will strike.

Good judgments are seldom hasty judgments, we’re being told to accept this vast, pork-layered "stimulus" bill now. There may be times when action -- and action now -- is needed, whatever the cost, as in war. Yet the voice of experience warns: spend in haste, repent at leisure.

This "stimulus" package is larded with so many bridges to nowhere or the equivalent as to make the old, secretive system of earmarking look open and deliberate. Most of this gargantuan spending package seems devoted to make-work projects, politically correct causes, and even programs that may be worthwhile in themselves but have no discernible connection with economic stimulus.

Please, when this behemoth comes out of conference, vote NO! Then, perhaps we can take a deep breath, step back, and get to work on a meaningful stimulus package - not a grab-bag of Democrat social programs to be passed in the dark of night.

Thanks to Townhall.com columnist Paul Greenberg for much of the wording.