Omnibus Spending Bill Passes Senate; McCain Plans For Long Night Of Twittering

The Senate passed the $410 billion omnibus stimulus package tonight after a week of widespread grandstanding and feigned horror over $7.7 billion in earmarks -- which is simply a means of allocating streams of existing funds -- split between 95 Senators. And yet here's John McCain, going nuts about earmarks and earmarks only because he is too stubborn, ignorant and stupid to learn budgetary policy, or any domestic policy, really, that can't be easily tagged as unethical or dishonorable. And if you don't know the difference between a hyphen and a dash, then you do not deserve to sit in elected federal office, Twitter rules be damned. [ Washington Post ]