Experiment in economic policy

Investors Business Daily opines that “Big government threatens our well-being with irresponsible health care “reform,” higher taxes on entrepreneurs, a tax-filled cap-and-trade energy bill, a host of new business-strangling regulations and trillion-dollar deficits as far as the eye can see.” Then they go on to say: “In late July, economist J.D. Foster of the Heritage Foundation put it succinctly: ‘This is no longer an experiment in economic policy. The results are in: Keynesian stimulus does not work.’ This GDP report doesn’t change that conclusion a bit”.
It is difficult to be more pessimistic than that. However, they do state that we have “stepped back from the abyss.” and that “our only hope going forward is the private economy. Though hindered by massive government intervention in housing, banking and industry, it’s still the most resilient in the world. Given the list of problems they cite, it is difficult to reconcile the optimism and pessimism contained in the piece. I suspect that we will slip back into recession in another quarter or so. I found little reason or justification for their, admittedly muted, optimism.