The press is saying stimulus bill opponents are disappointed that more funds didn’t go to their kinds of projects. All except targets of the Fairness Doctrine are drunk with hope that this time the cause won’t yield effect. Today, as a nation of baby birds turn their little open beaks upward, expectant of upchucked worms from mommy government, leaders plan for action.

[Asheville Mayor Terry] Bellamy will be traveling to Washington, D.C., on Thursday, February 19 through Friday, February 20, to meet with President Barack Obama. This meeting has been arranged through the U.S. Conference of Mayors and will focus on the implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Immune to their star-strikings, I can only wonder what sentences the pursuit team will prescribe for the hopeless. Then, to add insult to injury, the referenced article states the mayor will spend a couple days in Sarasota imparting to their city council arcane mysteries about elective mayorships.