Here is Paul Krugman's¹ latest column. This paragraph leapt out at me:
Also, one wishes that the speechwriters [for Barack Obama] had come up with something more inspiring than a call for an “era of responsibility”—which, not to put too fine a point on it, was the same thing former President George W. Bush called for eight years ago.
Two things. First, is Krugman advocating irresponsibility? Second, is he such a knee-jerk progressive as to reject something simply on the ground that President Bush accepted it?
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¹"Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults" (Daniel Okrent, "13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did," The New York Times, 22 May 2005).
