ABC acknowledges stimulus success

Despite Congress's deliberate and inexcusable refusal to pass health care reform, the year has had one major legislative highlight: the Obama administration's economic stimulus program.

I never doubted the success of the stimulus, and now even ABC is acknowledging it:



This isn't much comfort to the many who remain unemployed due to the Bush recession and the serial failures of the New Economy. But creating and saving some jobs is better than allowing things to just get worse.

We need to get the message out: By and large, the stimulus worked. And the Republicans were nearly unified in opposing it. We need to spread this message not because of partisanship, but because it's a fact.

It's particularly remarkable that ABC would even report it. One blogger said that the ABC report "was surprising coming from Charlie Gibson given the rightward slant ABC news has."