The Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill badly miscalculated by treating the bill as a victor's charter. Not that it seemed to bother Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, who grinned from ear to ear as she announced the result of the vote.

Obama said yesterday he did not feel he had ownership of the bill. Be that as it may, if it goes through the Senate in similar fashion and is signed into law then - the efforts of Pelosi and Senator Harry Reid notwithstanding - it will be his and his alone.

"They keep comparing this to Eisenhower, but he proposed a $500 billion highway system, and they're going to put $30 billion" in roads and bridges, he said. "How farcical can you be? Give me a break." [Rep. John L. Mica (Fla.), the ranking Republican on the transportation committee, called the proposed infrastructure spending "almost minuscule"]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703655_pf.html

Like the WSJ noted, - its 40 years of pent-up Democrat idiot ideas. Well, America voted and this is what they got.