SOOOO-EY!

In case you haven't noticed, our Fearless Leader is using the economic crisis as an excuse to justify a huge, ambitious, and very, very expensive program of radical government activism, much of which- if it stimulates the economy at all- will have its first effect years from now, probably after the recession is over.

"Stimulus program," indeed!

Meanwhile, it seems that at least some in the media have noticed that The One has the unmitigated chutzpah to try to sell his unprecedented and ruinous spending spree as somehow an exercise in fiscal discipline!

Meanwhile, the (predictable) consensus on the Jim Lehrer PBS program last night was that Bobby Jindal's Republican response to the State of the Union address misfired because it failed to recognize that massive government spending is our only option.

After all, as the cover of a recent issue of TIME informed us, "We're All Socialists Now."

TIME wishes.

HT: Real Clear Politics