Paul Krugman
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Krugman has not been paying attention. `We' elected a majority in the House, Senate, and a President who had a full two years to create those policies and build up the laws necessary to enforce them. They were put into office to get out of the wars and fix the economy. They did as near to nothing as they thought they could get away with.
I used to think the Democrats were spinless. I've changed my mind. They are stalworth defenders of Wall Street and the military industrial paranoid security state. The primary job of the Democrats was to defang public sentiment to get out of war and fix the economy. The Democrats succeeded brilliantly. (This was Carrol's line, that I resisted for a long time.)
However, I agree with the conclusion, we are headed into the abyss. The Republicans will probably make the trip shorter and faster.
CG