Mainstream Reporter With a Brain and Some Guts

The Weekly Standard:

"During a White House press briefing yesterday, ABC's Jake Tapper pointed out that unemployment is right about where an Obama economic adviser predicted it would be without the stimulus.

Tapper also noted that Obama had announced the 2,000th stimulus project the day before, but it turns out that this is the 2,000th planned project. Tapper asks Gibbs: How many projects have actually been started?

Gibbs will, uh, look into it: 'I can certainly look for a number."

Way to go, Jake Tapper! This exchange with Gibbs is a most effective exposé of the sham argument that the Democrat stimulus bill and massive budgets have anything to do with jumpstarting the economy in the short term.