The deed is done, but I still find it puzzling that Obama didn't wait until tomorrow--a full five days after posting the bill online--to sign it. On the campaign trail Obama pledged: "when there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out whats in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing." He has already broken this vow twice: once when he signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and again when he signed the expansion of the state children's health insurance program. Unlike those two bills, the stimulus may have slipped through Obama's "emergency" legislation loophole, but then why did he wait four days to sign it? As Rich Lowry notes in his column today, Obama discarded a number of other promises about changing the way Washington does business, but "No one cares about process as much as the impressionable young people and journalists he already has firmly in his hip pocket."