Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


"Very fun." -- J. Bottum, Editor, FIRST THINGS

"Too modest" -- Elinor Dashwood

"Perhaps the wisest man on the Web" -- Henry Dieterich

"Hat tip: me (but really Cacciaguida)" -- Diana Feygin, Editor, THE YALE FREE PRESS

"You are my sire. You give me confidence to speak. You raise my heart so high that I am no more I." -- Dante

"Fabulous!"-- Warlock D.J. Prod of Didsbury

Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Sunday, January 20, 2008
 
"Stimulus package"?! As best I remember, we haven't heard that expression since 1994. It was the oversold and ineffective centerpiece of the first two years of Clinton's fiscal policy. Then someone Democratic bigwig (not Clinton), asked if he was "seeing" some particular Washington chick, answered evasively yet creatively: "Yes, but not as a stimulus package." And that was the end of that phrase -- until now.

Now here it is again, just in time for Hallmark to market a line of Washington-themed Valentines....