The Ongoing Stimulus Saga Information War

Early in the week, the President sent out a fear-mongering mailer for all of his devoted followers to ramp up the information campaign to get the stimulus passed through the Senate. Let's have a look at what some of the bigger Go-Bama blogs are saying about this unprecedented mountain of new government spending:

• Daily Kos wonders why no Democrats are talking to the media about the stimulus (I thought you guys were the "new media")
  
• Think Progress notes that the 2/3 of spending will come within the first 18 months, despite what Congressional Republicans were saying about the CBO report. Good to know that we will be saddled with a cumbersome debt early.
• Crooks and Liars sticks it to that perpetual enemy of American progress, Fox News, by wondering why more economists besides Krugman aren't coming out in support of the stimulus (probably because many economists think it's a bad idea)
• Kevin Drum says the honeybee insurance that opponents have touted as porky waste is actually disaster insurance for livestock. I got bored about two sentences into the post and started staring at the ceiling, so I'm not sure if it's accurate.
• Arianna Huffington is very upset that someone on Teevee called her "clueless" on economic policies and, in turn, she calls him "clueless". Wow, what a zinger.

Call me a skeptic, but as regular citizen, I still don't understand how rushing a near-trillion dollars worth of government spending when our deficit is out of control is supposed to be a good thing for Americans. So, President Obama, who hasn't learned the art of delegation yet apparently, just writes a damn Op-Ed himself in today's WaPo explaining the awesome of the stimulus package. Bipartisan compromise is reached as Republicans rush to give tax credits for their suburban constituencies to build McMansions and drive Hummers, the stimulus passes, the country is saddled with an astronomical debt, and America turns into Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. The end.