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When You Fight For Issues

By Big Tent Democrat

Krugman:

Why do people like me feel the need to revisit the fateful decision to go for an underpowered stimulus right at the beginning of the Obama administration? It’s not about “I told you so”, or at least not mainly. It’s about the economic narrative, which will matter long after the current players are off the scene. [. . .] So I’m trying to keep the record straight here. It may not matter for the immediate political debate, but I think it does matter for the long game.

When you fight for the issues, and not the pols, that's what you do. If you are all in for Obama, then you pretend the stimulus was a "progressive triumph."

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).