Ya gotta love the Europeans. In one breath, EU economics czar Almunia calls the US stimulus bill “clearly protectionist”. He’s right, it is. In the next breath, he says relations with the US should be better in coming years. One is left to assume relations will be better due to enlightened leadership in the US, ie, left of center. But aren’t the protectionist measures coming out of that same, enlightened camp? Looks like Obama will be able to sneeze in the Europeans’ ears and tell them its raining…