I think you should develop a position on the Omnibus Spending Bill.

That’s the appropriations thing Congress just passed. You missed it, right? You were focused on the football playoffs or the Oscar nominations. Speaking of the Oscars, did you notice that this year there were people debating whether anybody got stiffed in the Best Song category? Really, if we can know about Best Song, we can have an opinion about the appropriations bill.

Plus, it’s $1.1 trillion. One of the rules of good citizenship is to know how you feel about everything that costs more than a trillion dollars.

The bill is 1,582 pages long, but do not let that dissuade you. In the House debate, one member of the Appropriations Committee assured his colleagues that “contrary to what they may have heard, the bill has not only been read but ... every word and every number has been scrutinized.” You will notice that he said it’s been read. Not “we all read it.”

So, to summarize:

1. The Omnibus Spending Bill is not perfect.

“This bill is not perfect,” said the House Appropriations chairman, Hal Rogers, during the debate. Repeatedly. Other members offered “not a perfect bill,” and “there are pros and cons” and “it could have been worse.”