Washington Post bases an entire article off of a lame quote

Sure, it's important to cover Obama's jobs plan thoroughly, but WaPo tends to like to write non-stories and then publish them on the front page, as if it's reminding readers that "Hey, remember, this is happening?"

The Washington Post based this entire article - which is essentially identical to articles printed days prior - off of the quote, "We'll get to that."

Filler is one thing, but to waste valuable inches on what was essentially a blow-off Harry Reid gave your reporter? Not exactly hard-hitting. Intelligent readers would have given up on that story by the second graf. People who still read newspapers already know that Obama is touting his jobs plan, and that it takes time to pass bills in Congress.

Given the way this article reads, the reporter was clearly told to go get a quote from Harry Reid, couldn't get a good one, and instead decided to go off on a tangent. Unfortunately, given that "the aide predicted the Senate will debate the jobs plan sometime in October," it sounds like we'll face weeks and weeks of this filler.