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Sullivan, Krugman and Kristol

By Ethan Brown

Andrew Sullivan is keeping mum about his meeting with the president-elect but he couldn't resist a little swipe at Paul Krugman.

Obama's post-partisanism, Sullivan writes is a "challenge...as real for a Krugman as for a Kristol." Please.

Bill Kristol is a shallow, error-prone propagandist behind just about everything awful in our politics, from the Iraq invasion to Sarah Palin. Krugman, conversely, is a Nobel Prize winning economist who has been pretty prescient on everything from the real estate crash to the comeback of Keynesian economics. [More...]

This shouldn't be hard to understand. Krugman and Kristol are not flip sides of some partisan coin in Andrew Sullivan's imagination. Indeed, Krugman and Kristol should not be described as "left" or "right" but right--and always, always wrong.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).