'On “This Week,” Jim DeMint Gets His Ass Handed to Him by Entire Panel on Stimulus Bill'

See Firedoglake here. Watching a show right now on WLRN about infrastructure ("Blueprint America").

See here, too ("In Defense Of Partisan Bickering or On Why Barney Frank Rocks"). Barney Frank:

The largest spending bill in history is going to turn out to be the war in Iraq. And one of the things, if we're going to talk about spending, I don't -- I have a problem when we leave out that extraordinarily expensive, damaging war in Iraq, which has caused much more harm than good, in my judgment.

And I don't understand why, from some of my conservative friends, building a road, building a school, helping somebody get health care, that's -- that's wasteful spending, but that war in Iraq, which is going to cost us over $1 trillion before we're through -- yes, I wish we hadn't have done that. We'd have been in a lot better shape fiscally. . . .

I also disagree that we're taking money, quote, "out of the economy" if we improve public transportation, if we improve highways. That's your concept. You're taking money out of the economy if you make sure a bridge doesn't fall down.