Liberals seemed determined on suicide:
Thus the stimulus bill fell far short of what many economists — including some in the administration itself — considered appropriate. According to The New Yorker, Christina Romer, the chairwoman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, estimated that a package of more than $1.2 trillion was justified.
Meanwhile, the administration balked at proposals to put large amounts of additional capital into banks, which would probably have required temporary nationalization of the weakest institutions…
We didn’t give enough money to the UAW, banks and State governments to cover their budget shortfalls – so goes liberal “thinking”. Two things about this:
1. If the Donks lose next year and Obama in 2012, the left will say the same thing they say about Carter in 1981: He lost because he wasn’t liberal enough.
2. Liberals are impervious to facts.