Where is "Expedited Service" Not So Fast?

When the State Department is in charge.

Now, you have to pay an extra fee to get your passport in roughly the same amount of time that they used to take to process your passport application for the normal fee.

And they seem to think that this is funny.

(By the way, take a look at the photo in the article on MSNBC.com (click the link). Look at the size of those flat-plate monitors. You Tax Dollars At Work.)