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July 15, 2005

Posted by Bill

Dark liberal pot bemoans the unbearable blackness of conservative kettles.

Paul Krugman:

What Mr. Rove understood, long before the rest of us, is that we're not living in the America of the past, where even partisans sometimes changed their views when faced with the facts. Instead, we're living in a country in which there is no longer such a thing as nonpolitical truth. In particular, there are now few, if any, limits to what conservative politicians can get away with: the faithful will follow the twists and turns of the party line with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern.

Ah, that mythic "America of the past."

This critique from a man whose catalogue of contorted economic posits in service of partisan political goals resembles an unexpurgated copy of the Kama Sutra.

(Hat tip: Val)

Posted by Bill at July 15, 2005 12:44 PM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

Warn us next time that its a Krugman column. The horror, the horror.

Posted by: rbj at July 15, 2005 01:02 PM

Just imagine: soon, people on the Internet will have to PAY to see the opinions of Krugman and company at the Old Doddering Gray Lady.

Posted by: JohnAnnArbor at July 15, 2005 01:48 PM

Forget paying, I won't even spend the 62 seconds it takes to register now.

Posted by: Jason at July 15, 2005 02:14 PM

with a loyalty that would have pleased the Comintern

Projection. Lots o' conservative blogs jumped all over Santorum this week, for instance.

The only time liberal blogs do that is when their guys are seen as "retreating," like when they excoriated Durbin for taking back his comparison of our guys to the Nazis.

Posted by: JohnAnnArbor at July 15, 2005 02:54 PM

As I point out in my post on this bile, the comintern couldn't even agree on what time of day it was much less what communism was all about.

http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2005/07/15/paul-krugmans-liver-ailment/

They were the very definition of cacophony.

Rick Moran

Posted by: superhawk at July 15, 2005 04:17 PM

Please check out my illustrative excercise on this very topic in a comment over at Joe Gandelman's blog:

http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1121413823.shtml#7967

Posted by: jmaster at July 15, 2005 04:29 PM

"...contorted economic posits..."

Sorta like watching an octopus orgy, eh?

Posted by: N. O'Brain at July 15, 2005 06:21 PM

I was just impressed you used the word "unexpurgated." I could guess it's meaning from context, but I had to look it up to be sure. I'm pretty sure I've never seen anyone use that word before.

having material deleted; "at that time even Shakespeare was considered dangerous except in the expurgated versions"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

The best part? I learned Shakespeare was considered dangerous. Who'd have thunk it?

Posted by: TallDave at July 16, 2005 01:40 PM