The stimulus was a political failure in that it didn't fix the economy. It did however save us from another Great Depression. It created almost 3 million jobs. It worked, it just didn't work as well it needed to.Most economist agree that stimulus was a massive failure. It was.
In what way did spending that trillion dollars prevent a replay of the Great Depression? Other nations chose NOT to go with massive stimulus programs...have THEY fallen into a depression?
TARP is what steadied the economy...the Stimulus was a short term pay off for politically connected groups and companies cashing in on their support for Obama.
The Stimulus was a political failure because it spent huge amounts of tax payer dollars and didn't do what it was designed to do...create jobs!