POLITICO: OBAMA LOSING THE STIMULUS MESSAGE WAR. It’s not the messenger. It’s the message that stinks. And, as a wise man once said, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

UPDATE: Jeff Jarvis: “We are bailing out the past. Instead, we must bail out the future.” We could start by not saddling the future with trillions more in debt for bailing out the past . . .