More from the crapulous bill

The final version of the bill includes $8 billion in earmarked funding for a super train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The environmental impact studies alone will take more than five years to complete

. Would it really be a 'catastrophe

' if all this long term spending were properly reviewed, debated, and voted on? Or maybe President Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was speaking the truth when he said: "Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before