More on the Train Wreck That Is Our Jobless Recovery

Josh Marshall:

The Big Question: With everything else going on this week, I wonder if the biggest thing isn't the fact that congressional Democrats greeted the president's call for new stimulus spending by telling him, in so many words, to go jump in a lake. Not that their response was surprising or that they had much choice, mind you. Going into a tough election, with Republicans dead set against doing anything, politically it doesn't seem remotely realistic. But it's of a piece with...