I guess even when his team is winning the spin never ends: In his Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan slips in “…for the tax cuts” as presumably one of the motivating factors that led the electorate to give Bush both houses of Congress. I don’t see it. Where’s the evidence?
Similary, the nonstop attacks of Krugman continue in that same column. I’ve noticed that the right-wing pundits and warbloggers tend to (1) complain that Krugman is obsessed or nasty, or (2) try to discredit him based on technical errors or with the he-consulted-for-Entron smear. What they don’t do is engage him on the substance of his columns, and they surely don’t understand that to many he is voicing a fair self-evident sanity check based on real numbers and a coherent interpretation of rhetoric vs. action on the part of the administration.
When I see some refutations of his main points, I will be more impressed with the campaign against him. Is it really true that the supporters of the president cannot stand to see even a single voice opposed to him? Hitchens said that Krugman represented the totality of the Democratic opposition to Bush, and sadly this is the truth.
Sullivan calls the election an endorsement of the tax cut
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