A friend directed me to the video of Sunday’s This Week with Christine Amanpour, which featured poor Paul Krugman sitting around a table with three Republican doofuses. This, by the way, is the typical Sunday show alignment. Conservatives must always be overrepresented. Krugman neatly summarizes the Republican dilemma:
KRUGMAN: I have a structural hypothesis there. You have a Republican ideology which Mitt Romney obviously doesn’t believe in. He just oozes insincerity. That’s just so obvious. But all of the others are fools and clowns. And there’s a question here. Maybe — my hypothesis is maybe this is an ideology only fools and clowns can actually believe in. And that’s the Republican problem.
Oddly enough the doofuses reject this hypothesis. Maybe they’re right, but for the wrong reasons. In my opinion Krugman is far too timid. It is not a hypothesis. It qualifies as a full fledged theory of the scientific variety.
As I perused the transcript of the program I was struck by how rarely Krugman got to speak. Only on network television could a pretentious blowhard like George Will get more respect and deference than a Nobel Prize winning economist like Krugman. But then, Will has earned his DC credentials by being consistently wrong time out of mind, while Krugman…well, nobody likes a smartypants.
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