End of the year spending bills usually contain so much crap, that the lawmakers who are voting on them don't even know what's in them. This year's lame duck spending bill contains language that would allow committee chairmen the right to view anyone's tax return. (Even Theresa Heinz-Kerry's)

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday that "accountability will be carried out" against whoever slipped a provision into an omnibus spending bill that would have allowed two committee chairmen to view the tax returns of any American.

The language was caught and removed in the Senate on Saturday, but the House will have to approve the fix before the spending bill can be sent to the White House for President Bush's signature.

"I have no earthly idea how it got in there," Frist said on CBS's "Face The Nation." "Nobody is going to defend this."

I'm more than a little skeptical. I'm not saying that Frist is one of them, but there are plenty of big government politicians that would love such powers.

Senator John McCain asks, "How many other provisions didn't we find in that 1,000-page bill?"