God Love Paul Krugman

This man has been consistently right on target since before Bush v. Gore back in the dark (though only a few of us realized just how dark indeed) Winter of 2000. God bless him. If you've yet to read his book, The Great Unraveling, I whole-heartedly reccomend and urge you to read it. Very prescient book. Incredible mind. In any case, Krugman's got another winner in today's NYT (their editorial page has, with some notable exceptions, been an oasis of common sense and indignation in the Slanted Paper of Distorted Record these last few years). A taste:

People who get their news by skimming the front page, or by watching TV, must be feeling confused by the sudden change in Mr. Bush's character. For more than two years after 9/11, he was a straight shooter, all moral clarity and righteousness.

But now those people hear about a president who won't tell a straight story about why he took us to war in Iraq or how that war is going, who can't admit to and learn from mistakes, and who won't hold himself or anyone else accountable. What happened?

The answer, of course, is that the straight shooter never existed. He was a fictitious character that the press, for various reasons, presented as reality.

Yes. Yes. Yes.