Legal Commentary

The Narrative

By Big Tent Democrat

Below I wrote about the Beltway (and White House?) narrative that Obama's failures are all the progressives' fault. That's why, as Atrios noted, Paul Krugman's points on the stimulus are critical:

The way the right [I would say the Beltway myself] wants to tell the story — and, I’m afraid, the way it will play in November — is that the Obama team went all out for Keynesian policies, and they failed. So back to supply-side economics! [. . . T]hat is not at all what happened. A straight Keynesian analysis implied the need for a much bigger program, more oriented toward spending, than the administration proposed. And people like me said that at the time — we’re not talking about hindsight.

[. . .] 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.

There will be a predictable lynching of progressives by the Beltway after the coming crushing defeat for Dems in November, possibly led by the White House itself.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 02, 2010 (boomark / email).