Notwithstanding the Fact That It’s Raining, I Decided To Use An Umbrella
By Shorter Verbatim Peter Berkowitz: “[P]lenty of competent observers were flabbergasted shortly after he took office when, notwithstanding an economic crisis that he himself declared the worst since the Great Depression, he called for and signed into law a $787 billion stimulus package short on stimulus spending, high on transfer payments, and larded with pork aimed at pet Democratic party special interests.”
In addition to the obvious illogic, in what sense are transfer payments not stimulative? Even assuming the last tendentious assertion is true, do Democrats not spend money? Alas, the article gets worse from there…