Talking down the economy is rule one in justifying his abuse of power and imposing policy that would NEVER PASS in separate legislation.
I've long said that were I king for one day, I would mandate that no law could come out of congress that by itself exceeded in length (based on word count) the constitution and its ammendments. If our entire nation can be defined in that document, some law on protecting field mice should be able to be too. Now, had this been the law of the land things like this porkulus package would have never been permitted. And those who envision themselves as kings such as Obama would be forced to cram through hundreds of smaller pieces of legislation, not one massive one.