Obama says his stimulus package is working as planned. That makes a few things clear to us. First, the Democrats lied when they said the stimulus bill had to be passed immediately, before anyone had time to read it because the economy was in such dire straits. Obviously, since the bill wasn't intended to spend much immediately, they didn't think the economy was in such bad shape, or, if they did, they didn't care if the economy got worse. Second, the bill was intended to pay back political supporters, and most of the money begins to be spent in 2010, in time to help Democrats in the 2010 Congressional elections.