Does anyone else get the feeling....

...that President Obama is using the cover of "economic stimulus" to ram through some agenda items, much as Dubya used 9/11 to wage a war on Iraq?

I mean, we all know now that Dubya and neocon Chaney had preconceptions to invade Iraq even before 9/11...that is fact. They just got an easy cover story with 9/11 and an easier sell to the public because of the terrorist attacks. Who didn't loathe Saddam Hussein at the time?

Now, Obama seems to be getting some long standing liberal agenda items brought to the forefront and quite probably rammed through as economic stimulus that have very little right being called economic stimulus. Currently in his package he is touting ..."huge increases in federal spending on education, aid to states for Medicaid costs, [and] temporary increases in unemployment benefits".

So, how are those items an economic stimulus other than being, as considered by Keynesian economists, huge government expenditures? They are only line item increases that the Democrats have sought all along anyway and that will have little, if any, effect on reviving our economy.

I fully understand that the issues of Bush using 9/11 and Obama using the economic downturn are morally night and day apart, but the tactics are definitely similar, eh?