We all know Politico always delivers the most original angles that no other establishment media outlet even considered publishing - like the important scoop that a few friends of Roman Polanski gave some dollars to President Obama, which (I hope) was too trivial for even Jake “I smell cigs” Tapper.

Today’s most Serious scoop out of Politico centers on the number of pages in the House’s health care reform bill:

It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.

The House health care bill unveiled Thursday clocks in at 1,990 pages and about 400,000 words. With an estimated 10-year cost of $894 billion, that comes out to about $2.24 million per word. .

And for some members, that may not be enough.

You may want to know what’s actually in the bill, but I don’t. I’d rather know, what can you do with the bill other than read it?

North Carolina Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry, 34 years old and a few inches taller than 5 feet, said a print-out of the bill could act as a ”booster seat.”

Most importantly, what does the House’s biggest moron think?

But Republican Rep. Joe Barton, who is Texan, said the bill is “about four reams of paper” that add up to the American public “getting reamed.

You know, if Politico was around to cover the lead-up to the Iraq War, I firmly believe we’d live in a safer world.

They would have told us that the Iraq War Resolution - which prints out at 3 pages and contains less than 2,000 words - would eventually cost more than $281 billion a page, as of 2008. The Bush administration initially projected that the war would cost roughly $16 billion to $20 billion per page.

These statistics would have piqued my interest much more than questions like, does Saddam Hussein actually pose a threat to the international community? Yawn!