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Biden failed at many things but he made a major break with Clintonite free trade and especially Obama's pint-sized stimulus policy and got basically no credit for it. Not Great for the prospects of future full employment

The urge to slam Obama for his record setting stimulus that worked is really irritating

it was too small for the record setting economic destruction of the deflating housing bubble so the slam is accurate

The slam is ignorant both politically ( he barely was able to pass it and a failure would have been catastrophic) and economically because critics don’t count e.g the auto rescue and aca as stimulus.

The ARA passed the senate, barely, beating a Republican filibuster. It needed votes from every Democrat, many of whom were quite conservative, 3 Republican defectors, and every independent including Lieberman who was deeply hostile. Obama added $50B+ auto bailout, $30B credit union, and then ACA!

It's easy to complain, but if there was popular support for more, Congressional authors could have added it. And it really pisses me off that "left/liberals" are always "Democrats suck" and never "Great first step, now we need to do this". All they fucking do is whine about Democrats.

nobody would have cared about sneaky provisions like this. even if they would have, it was madness not to even try