Don’t get too carried away with the headline. In reality, he doesn’t like either “stimulus” plan. He just likes Obama’s plan less than the Republican plan.
“Mr. Obama got nothing in return for his bipartisan outreach,” Paul Krugman concluded a recent article. “Not one Republican voted for the House version of the stimulus plan, which was, by the way, better focused than the original administration proposal.”
Krugman’s faint praise is like saying, “Your second ugliest sister is prettier than your ugliest sister.”
But he doesn’t really want to kiss either of them.
This post was last modified on February 11, 2009