The old "definition of insanity" thing

Delong:

So the only strong policy views in the administration's internal debate mix right now are those of people who were wrong in the summer of 2009.

In that post Delong goes about naming various actions the administration could have taken on its own to better respond to the stagnated economy from the beginning if the President and his favored advisers had not been so goddamned wrong about or, more likely, indifferent to the severity of the situation.