White House claims credit for economic recovery

There's nothing more ridiculous than a President taking claim for the positive performance of the entire economy based on a stimulus package designed to cut long-term economic growth. In other words, in the end, according to the administration's own economic models and the CBO, we'll be worse off with his plan than if we'd just said no and instead did nothing.

Add to that the irony of the President taking credit for doing the very thing that he practically castrated Bush for doing--namely, pursuing short-run gains at the cost of long-run economic performance.