Obama in Feb.: Without Stimulus Bill, “Unemployment will approach double digits.”

Here’s what President Obama wrote when pushing the economic stimulus bill in a February Washington Post op-ed titled, “The Action Americans Need”: 

And if nothing is done, this recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits.

Good thing we passed that stimulus bill and staved off double-digit unemployment. Er, scratch that.