Budget gamble: Why Obama went big
2nd March 2009
So apparently the plan was:
- Take advantage of the opportunity of the crisis to spend a ton of money on stuff the Democrats have been trying to spend money on for the last 40 years but haven’t been able to get through Congress, making loud scary noises whenever it looked like the herd was calming down;
- Hope that enough special interest groups find something to their advantage in the ton of spending that they’ll stick with the Democrats while saying to hell with the rest of the country.
It might work. Guess we’ll see.