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.
