"I have no quarrel with Krugman's numbers, just his reading of the political tea leaves. In fact, and as I'm planning to discuss in more detail in my 'Fiscal Fitness' column this week in Roll Call, even if the president doesn't make a request for additional fiscal stimulus, there will a number of already scheduled opportunities for more stimulus to be enacted.  I'm even willing to predict that more will be adopted in the not too distant future if it is needed.

The congressional budget process will provide the means for this to happen."

We'll see.