With regard to the stimulus:

Overall, 84 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents and 52 percent of Republicans backed a broadly-defined plan for new federal spending of about $800 billion to try to revive the nation's economy.

Irwin Stelzer gets it, even if other conservatives don't yet.

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