Mike Bloomberg

As the economy falls into recession, the Presidential candidates are leaping forward with economic stimulus plans.

But why should the candidates have all the fun? Why can't the Netroots "crash the gates" with an economic stimulus plan of our own?

We demonstrated the power of the Netroots yesterday in Michigan when we helped Mitt Romney crush John McCain. As CNN reports (h/t Kagro X),

In a January 10 post titled "Let's Have Some Fun in Michigan," Markos Moulitsas wrote on his popular liberal site, The Daily Kos, that Michigan Democrats should help Romney.

I haven't wasted my breath on Unity08 because I couldn't figure out who it would appeal to.

Sure we all want "unity" in the abstract, but U.S. politics are about real people (candidates), not abstractions. So the key question was: who would they run?

If there is a broadly unifying person in American politics, I haven't met him or her. Just because a candidate talks about unity doesn't make him or her a unifier. After all, George Bush insisted he was a "uniter, not a divider." Did anyone outside David Broder's alternative universe actually believe him?

So without an obvious "unity" candidate, Unity08 really looked like a stalking horse for Mike Bloomberg. Mike who? I'm a New Yorker so I know who he is, but who outside New York does?