the political and economic news looks, why announce a series of economic ideas? and i think plan is overstated but a series of ideas this week. i think that he really has to do it. i think there is number one, a question whether he can get anything passed before november. and number two, even if it does pass, will vit an effect before november? i think both of those are big question marks. i think these kind of targeted tax rates might help over time. i don t know if they ll help enough. but i think the democrats need to have something to go home and talk about. economists do agree that targeted tax breaks designed to help people hire and spend could make a difference. the problem is that the entire plan a for the white house, which was to have economic growth going in the right direction, the green shoots of spring were going to continue didn t work out. they re kind of left without