Remember the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds?”

You know, the one where the attack scenes always begin with a bird landing on something.  Then more birds arrive.  When the victim turns around again, there are tons of birds, and then…

BLAM! Or rather, <peck><caw><SCREAM!><splat>.  Oh yes, and don’t forget the drive-by birdings either.  Or the home invasions.

Well, it seems that’s the way it is with the stimulus signs.  They’re the signs that go up telling everyone that stimulus money is being spent there.  The last time I saw one, it was on a road in Georgia that didn’t need repaving.  At least, not until they repaved it and the miserable results meant that it now needed repaving.

Maybe they’re just like “The Birds”…

One moment you turn around, and there’s a sign.  An innocuous piece of work on two wooden posts that says “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” as though it bore some relevance to everyday life.  It’s a harmless and pleasant green as you might see on any other road sign.  The only oddity is that there’s no work accompanying it.

You shrug and return to your hot dog.  A moment later, you look up, and now there are five signs.  One of them is pecking at seeds on the ground, and you swear that the rest of them are looking at you.  Watching you.  Being flat and GREEN with those increasingly sinister words…”American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.”  But still no work nearby.

Ruling out their presence as a product of your fevered imagination, you tear into your hot dog, desperately hoping to forget.  It only takes you a few seconds to gulp it down, but then…more signs.  Dozens of them now.  Signs on the benches.  Signs on the telephone wires.  Signs on the rooftops.  Waiting.  Massing.  Unaccompanied by the work force they say is there.  Perhaps they ate them…

Then you realize someone had to spend money to make all of those signs.  Stimulus money that might have been yours, except for the need to swarm America with signs.  Otherwise, we might not know just how wasted the money truly was.

And just to remind you, Snowe, Collins, and the recently humiliated Specter helped make all those signs a reality.  No RINOs.  No exceptions.