Krugman on the SS Commission report

[Brad DeLong]

>On Mon Jul 23 2001, Daniel Davies wrote:
>
>>  > indeed, a perfect shot.
>>
>>  He's also very sound on Argentina,
>
>He was also excellent on the California power crisis.  And before that on
>the Bush tax cut.  The advent of Bush was the best thing that ever
>happened to his column writing.
>
>>  and has been markedly less sneery of late.
>
>He's still dismissive, but now it's consistently of fat cats and
>republicans who deserve it.  Maybe he wants a job in the next Democratic
>administration?

No. He's just being himself, following Karl Marx's dictum that to 
leave error unrefuted is to encourage intellectual immorality.

He views his job as that of afflicting the comfortable, the stupid, 
and the powerful. Because the current administration is all three, it 
is a natural target...

Brad DeLong