Will Get Fooled Again
Paul Krugman
NYT blog
Brad DeLong praises Jacob Weisberg for noticing, finally, that the GOP has gone off the deep end — then asks why Weisberg hasn’t written a piece about how he got snookered by Paul Ryan just 6 weeks ago.
And more important, what will happen when the next charlatan comes along?
John Quiggin is optimistic: he thinks that we may have reached a real turning point. I hope he’s right. But I doubt it. There’s a large cohort of people in the commentariat (and one in the White House, I fear) who are more or less liberal in sentiment, but desperately want to see themselves as men who transcend partisan differences; and to serve their self-image they keep looking for what Atrios calls “GOP daddies”, supposedly serious, sensible Republicans they can praise to show their open-mindedness.
So what happens when this intense desire to find sensible Republicans faces the reality of a GOP gone bonkers? The answer is a series of unrequited crushes. Paul Ryan is only the latest figure to be held up as an example of competence and reasonableness despite clear evidence, for anyone willing to see it, that he utterly lacked those qualities. Some of us remember that none other than George W. Bush once got the same treatment.
(More here.)
NYT blog
Brad DeLong praises Jacob Weisberg for noticing, finally, that the GOP has gone off the deep end — then asks why Weisberg hasn’t written a piece about how he got snookered by Paul Ryan just 6 weeks ago.
And more important, what will happen when the next charlatan comes along?
John Quiggin is optimistic: he thinks that we may have reached a real turning point. I hope he’s right. But I doubt it. There’s a large cohort of people in the commentariat (and one in the White House, I fear) who are more or less liberal in sentiment, but desperately want to see themselves as men who transcend partisan differences; and to serve their self-image they keep looking for what Atrios calls “GOP daddies”, supposedly serious, sensible Republicans they can praise to show their open-mindedness.
So what happens when this intense desire to find sensible Republicans faces the reality of a GOP gone bonkers? The answer is a series of unrequited crushes. Paul Ryan is only the latest figure to be held up as an example of competence and reasonableness despite clear evidence, for anyone willing to see it, that he utterly lacked those qualities. Some of us remember that none other than George W. Bush once got the same treatment.
(More here.)
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