Safire On Language: stimulus, spending, and roast

Recovery. What brought about this sudden change of executive interregnum vocabulary? Who prevailed on the speaker of the House to ratify the change of language by her personal acclamation? I am not privy to the intimate advice on word choice being given to the powers that will be, but logic suggests that cool heads on the inside took issue with an alarming verb used by Barack Obama as he introduced his new economic team: “We are going to do what's required to jolt this economy back into shape.”