Vacation Reading

The New York Post is complaining that President Obama, who threatened catastrophe if the stimulus package were not approved, is taking his sweet time to sign the bill into law. They appear to have forgotten Obama's vow:

We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.

In other words, the President is giving himself only three days to read the 1,100 page spending bill; that's 367 pages (or about 8,100 lines) per day. Obviously, he had to take a little time off from his normal job (reversing the rise of the oceans, healing the planet, etc.). You just don't want to rush something this important.

UPDATE: It's now Tuesday and the bill has just been signed into law. Some people, however, are skeptical that the President actually read the whole thing over the weekend. But who would sign a check for that much money without first reading the bill? Surely it's just too unbelievable to be true.