Phillip Klein at the American Spectator:
Even while calling for the urgent passage of the $800 billion-plus economic stimulus package, the Obama administration and its liberal allies are laying the groundwork to neutralize criticisms should it fail.
“[B]y the midterm elections we’re probably not going to see an economy that’s better than now,” former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich conceded Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos. “I mean, not that the stimulus program will have failed, but that the stimulus program, even if it succeeds, will not actually kick in. It will not get the economy better than it is now. Without the stimulus, the economy could be far worse in two years than it is now.” [Read More]
