Why I (Still) Love Paul Krugman

Just go read it: "Wingnuts, Wingnuts, Everywhere."

Beating on Obama...

I got into a little verbal kerfuffle with some friends on Facebook the other week over one of them becoming a fan of Barack Obama for President in 2012. My point was that his "post-partisan-bridge-the-divide" ideology is going to be counterproductive and ineffective.

In his column in today's New York Times, Paul Krugman writes regarding Obama and the inadequate stimulus:

So has Mr. Obama learned from this experience? Early indications aren’t good.

For rather than acknowledge the failure of his political strategy and the damage to his economic strategy, the president tried to put a postpartisan happy face on the whole thing. “Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands,” he declared on Saturday, and “the scale and scope of this plan is right.”

No, they didn’t, and no, it isn’t.