Could it be that Obama and the boys are pushing their aggressively transformative budget because the experts have told them that as long as they 'sort of get things right' the economy will be improving by the time the next election rolls around no matter obstacles that may remain in the way - Obama can take credit for the upturn, even if it's modest, because modest will look good after so much hardship, and then run roughshod over the hapless GOP whose candidate will be stuck groveling before Rush and the god and guns rabble. Get that feeling - especially after reading his chief economic adviser Romer's speech to CFR concerning lessons of The Great Depression - how under FDR's stewardship the country groped its way towards economic health in spite of setbacks of their own making and those intruding from the Europe - FDR got credit for recovery, however halting, however sometimes undeserved - and yada yada yada one of the greatest presidents ever.
Sure get the feeling they're thinking along those lines.
