News You Can Use

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

News You Can Use
“Latest Fashions Not Good for Running From Deputies”–headline, Daily Press (Victorville, Calif.), Feb. 2

Pay Now, Learn Later
Barack Obama promised a new transparency in government. He’s still promising. Go the Web site Recovery.gov and you’ll find this announcement:

Check back after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act [the so-called stimulus] to see how and where your tax dollars are spent.

An oversight board will routinely update this site as part of an unprecedented effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government.

Is that too big a job for Congress? Even when all it requires is rejecting the stimulus bill?

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