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LIGHTING A FIRE….Felix Salmon finds a silver lining to today’s very, very grim employment report:

Maybe the only real upside to this report is that it should light a fire under Congress to pass a stimulus package sooner rather than later — including the release of the second tranche of TARP funds. Let’s start getting money out the door now: that’s more important than haggling over what goes where.

Well, it worked for FDR. Maybe it will work for BHO too.