On August 24,2011, Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Kentucky) appeared on WFPL news and lambasted the Obama Administration over the stimulus package saying the promise it would lower the unemployment rate was probably the "stupidest thing" that any administration has ever said.
Yarmuth said:
“I think if you asked them now they will say that was the stupidest thing that basically any administration probably ever said because that’s not something they can necessarily control."
(h/t The Hill)