"The Awful Truth" Krugman

[Clark4VotingRights]

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"Ron Suskind's new book "The Price of Loyalty" is based largely on interviews with and materials supplied by Mr. O'Neill. It portrays an administration in which political considerations — satisfying "the base" — trump policy analysis on every issue, from tax cuts to international trade policy and global warming. The money quote may be Dick Cheney's blithe declaration that "Reagan proved deficits don't matter." But there are many other revelations.
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The question is whether this book will open the eyes of those who think that anyone who criticizes the tax cuts is a wild-eyed leftist, and that anyone who says the administration hyped the threat from Iraq is a conspiracy theorist.

The point is that the credentials of the critics just keep getting better. How can Howard Dean's assertion that the capture of Saddam hasn't made us safer be dismissed as bizarre, when a report published by the Army War College says that the war in Iraq was a "detour" that undermined the fight against terror? How can charges by Wesley Clark and others that the administration was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq be dismissed as paranoid in the light of Mr. O'Neill's revelations?"
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/13/opinion/13KRUG.html

[papau]

1. the credentials of the critics just keep getting better!

Krugman is spot on, you wonder how the rest of the media looks in the mirror in the morning.

[quaker bill]

2. As usual Krugman finds the sweet spot.

We need to nominate a candidate who will make full use of this stuff. This stuff is the 'pentagon papers' of our time.

Kucinich, Dean, and Clark, have been proven right over and over again.

[WillyT]

3. Right On Mr. Krugman !!!

Hey folks, some call-in person on Malloy last night said that when he went to order the book on the Internet, he got a message saying that the release date was being 'moved back'. Anybody else know anything about this???

He and Mike wondered if the 'investigation' into O'Neill could be used as an excuse for the delay. It's an election year after all, LOL!!!

Course, maybe they're movin it back because they just realized they're gonna have to print a whole lot more copies!!! Instant Bestseller, no?

:shrug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Read this editorial to my husband

who said, "Right on! Let's hope that more revelations keep coming out!"