by Eric Rush
Obama has referred to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as “my stimulus bill.”
The idea that a carefully considered economic recovery plan for our nation could have been crafted in such a short time is beyond incredulous; anyone with even scant knowledge of our legislative process is aware of its impossibility. Those with better than scant knowledge of our legislative process are pretty sure that what occurred is closer to this: Obama instructed congressional Democratic leaders to construct a bill packed with all of the pork they’d wanted for as many years back as their limited attention spans would allow, then he’d sell it as an economic recovery plan. The establishment press would be behind him, of course, and so Americans would buy it.
And he was right.