Is there any periphery bounding the absurdity of the desperate political left?<\/p>\n
The Obama Administration’s 2009 “stimulus” continues to prove itself a failure.\u00a0 It promised<\/a> that unemployment would peak in October 2009 at 8%, and would be down to 7.3% by now.\u00a0 Instead, we remain mired near 10%.\u00a0 Further, second quarter gross domestic product (GDP) was revised downward<\/a> just last week to 2.4%, a slowdown from 3.7% in the first quarter and 5.0% from the fourth quarter of 2009.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we’re $1 trillion deeper in debt, and the administration admitted last month<\/a> that its second year deficit will reach an astounding $1.5 trillion, exceeding even its first deficit of $1.4 trillion.<\/p>\n Yet according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, “the administration’s original sin was not spending enough.”\u00a0 Commenting in today’s Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>, Reich bizarrely adds that the Democrats’ 2009 filibuster-proof Senate supermajority somehow constituted “a fragile 60 votes” constraining Obama’s ambitions, and says that the problem with ObamaCare was that it was “not nearly large or bold enough.”\u00a0 Not large enough?\u00a0 Take a look at this ObamaCare flow chart<\/a>, which looks more intricate than a nuclear reactor.<\/p>\n