According to Roll Call this morning:

With unemployment headed to double digits, Democrats are facing a damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-don’t dilemma when it comes to passing another stimulus package.

That’s why:

Democratic leaders and the White House are trying to thread the needle, opening the door to some more stimulus spending, while trying their best to avoid the word ’stimulus.’

Meanwhile, the more-often-wrong-than-not Harold Meyerson, over at the Washington Post, writes that “the all-but-universal wisdom . . . is that the Obama administration does not dare ask Congress for an additional stimulus package. . . . But is a new federal public works program really that unsalable?”

And of course, Meyerson goes on cheering for that program.

I think Meyerson and his friends should look at this chart I published this morning over at The American. Unemployment is going up while stimulus spending is going up. Doesn’t that tell you something? It should. Read the whole thing here.