"Major Democratic losses were guaranteed by the failure to deliver a significant improvement in job markets. To have avoided these losses, Obama would have had to have a stronger economic program — above all, a bigger stimulus.
Could he have gotten one? If not, the White House was a poisoned chalice from the beginning. But the point is that he didn’t try."
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PK seems to contradict one of your earlier Obama apologia, however.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/pre-mortem/
"Major Democratic losses were guaranteed by the failure to deliver a significant improvement in job markets. To have avoided these losses, Obama would have had to have a stronger economic program — above all, a bigger stimulus.
Could he have gotten one? If not, the White House was a poisoned chalice from the beginning. But the point is that he didn’t try."
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