I haven’t been disappeared into a CIA torture chamber, if those of you concerned for my wellbeing have been wondering. I started college again late last month, and it’s taken up a lot of my free time. I’ll probably be doing my updates primarily on the weekends for a while. Anyway, on to business.
Leave it to Paul Krugman to state what should have been obvious from the start:
Maybe I’m wrong, but my sense is that Jason Furman has become a proxy target for some Obama supporters who, now that the Great Satanness has been defeated, are suddenly starting to have the queasy feeling that their hero might be a bit of a …. centrist. I’m tempted to say I told you so; in fact, I guess I just did.
Although Krugman actually likes Furman, I think his remarks are — as usual — spot on. The Obamamaniacs got the presidential candidate they wanted, but now that they’ve begun to realize they put their hopes in a fraud they’re getting nervous. I would be too, if I suddenly realized I’d thrown my support behind another DLCer and in so doing, helped Democrats lose the White House again.
Merely a STRONG FEELING of RELIEF that we will not have to listen to Bill Clinton lecture us about the wonders of his administration.
The lesser evils were all washed out before the primaries really got started.
Greater evil has just edged out the MORE greater evil. Giving the greatest evil his best shot to win, but hey, are you going to vote principles, or be a triangulating compromiser?