You have to admit there's been a major paradigm shift
The stimulus measures, especially the spending as opposed to the tax cuts, have the support of more "mainstream" economists than would have been the case before the dramatic events of last fall, and support for unregulated free financial markets has largely diminished. The long-held faith in the market's magical ability to heal itself has been shattered.
Keynesian economic thought and policies are back with a vengeance, and government intervention to hasten recovery from recession is readily expected, among economists and among the public.