From its editorial today, which lectures Obama about his learning curve [emphasis added]:

The narrow and rushed passage of his stimulus package underscored the difficulty of living up to his grand promises of transparency; the campaign trail talk about not cutting deals behind closed doors yielded to the demands of the moment.

Narrow, eh?

The final vote for passage of Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill in the Senate was 60-38, and in the House, 246-183. But boy, votes don't get much more “narrow” than that, do they?

And I realize context has been banned within the Beltway when reporting on Obama's legislative 'struggles,' but if anyone's interested, back in 2001 when president Bush passed his $1.35 trillion tax cuts, the final vote in the Senate was 62-38, and in the House, 240-154.

I'm not even gonna check Nexis before I say that the first person to find a May, 2001, Washington Post reference to the “narrow” passage of Bush's tax plan, I'll send them a Media Matters rectangle magnet.