CALPUNDIT INTERVIEWS NY TIMES
GOOD GUY MUCKRAKER PAUL KRUGMAN

If you haven't been reading Krugman's essays in the Times, you're missing out on one of the few sane voices in mainstream journalism. Here's a sample from the interview:

The main theme of [Krugman's book of collected essays] "The Great Unraveling" is how much Bush lies. But Reagan lied, Clinton lied, Johnson lied, all presidents lie. What's the difference between them and Bush?

Actually, I miss Reagan. I never thought I'd say that, but....

Reagan lied a little bit, and his policies were often crazy, but they wouldn't do 2 -1 = 4. They'd say, if we have our tax cut we'll have this wonderful supply side thing and the economy will boom and it will pay for itself, which was a crazy theory, but it wasn't a blatant lie about the actual content of the policy.

Bush says, I've got a tax cut that's aimed at working people, ordinary working people, and then you just take a look at it and discover that most of it's coming from elimination of the estate tax and a cut in the top bracket, so it's heavily tilted toward just a handful of people at the top. It's just a flat lie about what the tax cut is.

So this is different, this is really more extreme. We're not talking about disagreements about policy at this point, we're talking about people who insist that things that are flatly not true are true, that black is white, up is down.

Go read this fantastic interview; it's well worth your time. Click here. And be sure to look for Krugman's fantastic essays in the op-ed section of the New York Times.

Thanks to Eschaton for the link.

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