I smell a rat.

Does it begin to look like the economy is being held hostage for the 2010 congressional elections? With Pres. Obama now saying "it was always a two-year plan" - that's not what he and the Democratic Party leadership was saying to the American public when the don't-read-just-vote bill came forward. Politic-speak is still the DC native language.

It would be brutal if the political goal is to make the public suffer until the 2010 campaigning starts, and then "things get miraculously better" at least enough to show how smart the congressional incumbents are.