As various people talk nervous, including Harvard's Larry Summers, about "recession", one has to look at the forecast numbers for the next year.
If the GOP hadn't obstructed spending on things like S-CHIP, we might have some stimulus in the pipeline, in the right places, providing relief to those LMI consumers likely to be touched by high gas and home heating prices over the wintertime.
The blind pursuit to "re-brand" themselves is occuring precisely when progressive values might have done some economic cushioning.
:-(