Spin Cycle

Eliot Spitzer, in his latest column at Slate, anticipates that Obama's recovery plan will misdirect money to old infrastructure, and won't involve enough to really turn around the economy.

He argues for investments in "smart meters" that will facilitate off-peak electricity discounts that will translate into more efficiency and fewer power plants, and money to retrofit gas stations for electric cars and hybrids so that new-age vehicles can flourish.

A lot more interesting than a State of the State address, which is what he'd be delivering if he hadn't messed up.