one to fend off the unspoken, but looming, threat that the country may be about to plunge back into recession. after barely escaping a depression brought on by the financial system collapse at the end of the george w. bush administration, after a recovery that tried and tried to bring us back all the way, but now seems to have stopped in its tracks, can washington act to stop a double economic dip? can the gleefully obstruction republicans who control the house and act as a super empowered or not? 447 billion dollar plan 60/40 tax cuts to spending. now this was not a high concept speech. this was not a vague goals kind of speech. the president has a piece of legislation with very specific proposals in it. many of them taken from the republican side of the aisle.