A DISAPPOINTMENT: Supposedly neutral Consumer Reports running pro-Obamacare ads.

WORRIES ABOUT DEFLATION. And yet I notice that prices on some things seem to be going up. My guess is that businesses with a hard-core of customers (e.g., TCBY) figure they’re already down to that core and might as well squeeze ’em as much as they can . . . .

ACORN HQ FOR SALE. “The big news from Big Government is that the ACORN Headquarters in New Orleans is up for sale. The property was also the home of Local 100 of the SEIU, the union that pushed the presidential candidacy of former ACORN lawyer, Barack Obama. The IRS and the state filed tax liens of $548,000 and $26,026 against ACORN in New Orleans, Sweetness and Light reported.”

FABIUS MAXIMUS: Why has the worst recession since the 1930’s had so little impact on the economy?

A STIMULUS BUBBLE? Roubini Says Stocks Have Risen ‘Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast’.

Related item here.

UPDATE: Is the rally “fake?”

HOPE: 62% Say Today’s Children Will Not Be Better Off Than Their Parents.

UPDATE: Ross Douthat: “Not long ago, liberals were insisting that income inequality was America’s most serious economic problem. . . . But having promised win-win, they may deliver lose-lose. In the short run, Barack Obama could preside over an America that’s more economically stagnant and more stratified.”

DAVE BARRY ON STIMULUS: “See, when the Government spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of Taxpayers, God only knows what they do with it. Bake it into pies, probably. Anything to avoid creating jobs.”

THE TUCSON TEA PARTY FOLKS WON’T BACK DOWN:

The group has already proven to be a thorn in the side of the dominant local Democratic Party. Chairman Jeff Rogers sent out a scathing press release last week, his second in recent months on the topic, saying the Republican Party has been taken over by radical “tea partiers.” Robert Mayer, the UA marketing student who formed the Tucson Tea Party group with Trent Humphries, quickly turned the attack into motivational fodder for the upcoming rally and for campaigning in favor of the Republican candidates for City Council.

“Jeff Rogers says that he is going to ‘call us out,’ ” Mayer said in an Internet message “I think it’s about time that we call him out, along with Nina Trasoff, Karin Uhlich, and their new candidate, Richard Fimbres.”

The “we” Mayer referred to is a collection of residents who say they were mostly politically quiet in the past but were prodded from their living rooms by federal bailouts and stimulus bills of the last two years.

Read the whole thing.