Word just in – it took 3 minutes for the United States Senate to read the 154-page ‘fiscal cliff’ bill and budget score, before voting to pass it 89-8.

Now that, my friends, is Accelerated Crisis Management!

The U.S. Senate has often been described as ‘the world’s greatest deliberative body’. Considering this latest story out of D.C., we suspect it’s probably Senators themselves who make that often-described observation.

(And begs a follow-up question: how stupid must the GOP congressmen feel now…?)