In case you were wondering how the Democratic Party plans to explain the fact that the great stimulus of 2009 didn’t work: it’s because it wasn’t big enough!

The economy has been deteriorating at such an accelerating rate in recent months that the administration had to expand the size of the stimulus package far beyond what they originally envisioned. If the economy continues to sink - and signs around the globe point in that direction - even this package will not be big enough. And economists of almost every stripe complain that its impact was weakened during the political wrangling.