Firing Back on the Obama Recovery Package -- Again

By Sara Robinson

Created 02/12/2009 - 12:00pm

My God -- they're still at it. Two weeks ago, I wrote a ten-point takedown [1] of some of the biggest lies conservatives are telling about the stimulus bill. You can tell just how terrified they are: if this thing passes -- and especially, God and Alan Greenspan forbid, if it actually works, even a little bit -- it's going to discredit their entire model of how the economic world works. Because the battle over the stimulus package is nothing less than the battle for all the marbles, their Big Lie factory is working overtime, cranking out specious new absurdities on an almost daily basis.

And compared to the last round -- some of which were at least sort of plausible if you squinted at them just right -- this crop is just bizarre. You may also recognize a few of these points as second passes at arguments we covered in the first piece. In some cases, it's because they've reworked their argument to come at it from another direction; in others, it's because on our end, working out new and better comebacks is an ongoing process.