Monday, February 16, 2009  Post-stimulus blues  Quin Hillyer is
bummed out: There are times when it's just too depressing to
write about politics. This is one of those times. The welfare-
reform-killing, debt-exploding, generational-thieving, pork-
laden, growth-inhibiting, utterly unnecessary and
counterproductive monstrosity that the Obamites and Pelosians
just shoved down the nation's throats has left me in a deep
numbness akin to one of the stages of grief. Anybody else
feeling the post-stimulus blues?     1. Contra the blues, in a
strange way, I'm feeling more energized than I have in a long
time. Yes, it sucks that this gigantic "stimulus" has passed and
will become law and that that the U.S. will be in effect a
rudderless ship for the next 4 years with Obama at the helm. But
just as the Roman Empire at the height of its power could
survive emperors like Caligula and Nero, so too can we survive
Obama's reign of error.      In the meantime, Obama, Pelosi,
Reid, and the Democrats in general are overreaching