Politico’s Jonathan Martin reports on a new ad campaign by the American Issues Project, which seeks to put the stimulus plan in perspective. The power line: “Suppose you spent $1 million every single day starting from the day Jesus was born — and kept spending through today. A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did.”

That’s pretty good stuff. Yes, some people will question the necessity of introducing the name Jesus to this whole debate. But the historical concept of how long ago Jesus existed is something that resonates with most Americans.

You know what this means, don’t you? If you had bought 200,000 five dollar footlongs a day for the past two thousand years, you’d still have money left over for a Snuggie.