Larry Summers, Obama’s Director of the National Economic Council, speaking at the Economic Club of Washington earlier today: “I think the sense of a ball falling off a table — which is what the economy has felt like since the middle of last fall — I think that’s going to end in the next few months and we won’t have that sense of freefall.”

Think they can set the bar any lower? Within a few months, we’re going to get rid of “that sense of freefall.”