The various economic “stimulus” proposals have, by all accounts, failed to pull the U.S. economy out of recession. Regardless of whether they’ve had a positive effect on jobs or the economy at large, at least one sector of America has been irrevocably damaged by the stimuli: the “reality based community.”

For those with better things to do than read the rantings of the left blogosphere, the “reality based community” is the arrogant sobriquet that liberals bestowed upon themselves during the Bush 43 era to denote their superiority to an administration whose rhetoric and policies they deemed insufficiently attuned to reality.