Where's The Bailout Money?

Yesterday the House passed the $819B stimulus package. And are you sitting down for this... the vote was cleanly divided along party lines. Nice job of coming together people! Another whopper of a surprise... it was full of useless pork barrel spending! Wow! Who could have guessed that would happen?

Now the bill will go the the Senate, where they will pass their own version, and then they will fight it out some more. The Democrats are saying that it is more important to pass something, anything, than it is to get the bill perfect. Is this really their tactic?

I'm disappointed on many fronts:
1) Where are the adult decisions that Obama wants to see?
2) Where can we find hope that pork barrel spending is slowing down?
3) How can we find a way to muzzle Nancy Pelosi?!

I've got an idea- let's rush to approve billions in government spending without taking our time to walk through each line item. I'm sure the politicians that put it together can be trusted! It's not like they are constantly busted for sex scandals and bribery! I'm sure they can get along and make mature decisions.

Or maybe we are already seeing the reality that regardless of Obama rhetoric, the same old machine, with the same old conductors, are driving this train.