By Mitch Perry
PoHo contributor
Mitch Perry is the anchor of the WMNF Evening News on 88.5 FM community radio.
Joe Biden's trip to Orlando last week barely made any ripples in state media coverage. The VP came to Florida to extol some of the virtues of the much criticized $787 billion federal stimulus package, on the six-month anniversary of the largest domestic spending bill in U.S. history.
Tracking the effects of the stimulus will continue to be the focus of economic and political analysts over the duration of its life, which will continue into 2011. But conventional wisdom has already declared it a failure now. Republicans called it that from the get-go, (which is why none in the House and only three Republican members of the Senate supported it), and then Gallup last week released a poll indicating that a majority of Americans now agree.
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2009.