Continuing with the media's beloved yes/but angle regarding the pending passage of the Obama stimulus bill, and how yes it represents a victory, but there are oh so many troubling things to report, Politico focuses on negatives with article, “Early setbacks test Obama's cool.”

Writes David Rodgers:

The $789 billion recovery package is a major accomplishment less than a month after his Inauguration. But it's smaller than Obama had hoped it would be just days ago...

Note the language. Obama just passed his centerpiece economic legislation less than one month after being inaugurated. A “major accomplishment”? Technically, that's true. But a more accurate description would have been “unprecedented” or “historic” or “unheard of” accomplish. When you consider it took then-new president Ronald Reagan until July to pass his economic legislation and Bill Clinton until August and George W. Bush until May, the fact that Obama was able to shepherd his through in a matter of weeks is an unprecedented, historic and unheard of accomplishment for any modern day president.

But you're not going to hear that kind of language, because the Beltway press is more interested in the “but” part of the yes/but angle.