10/12/2004 03:58:18 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

Paul Krugman, of Enron fame, is at it again. By it, of course, I mean he's again writing the most intellectually dishonesy tripe in an effort to explain the nuanced absurdities of his candidate as fundamentally correct, while portraying the efforts of the opposition as a mere nuisance (you know, akin to terrorism), shortsighted, and "nitpicky".

Go ahead - read it. It's good for the conservative soul. It reinvigorates the spirit, letting us see what we are really up against it. One of the most elite mouthpieces of the left is so conclusory that the only logical explanation for Krugman's argument would require a series of extensive references to The Prince. Power at any price. Of course the tax cuts caused the deficit - not 9/11, not corporate mistrust, not an inherited recession. Apparently Krugman, like many, are unaware or dismissive of dynamic scoring. The budget is not static. Tax cuts are more than tax cuts, they are incentive builders. Krugman knows better.

The best part

Mr. Kerry sometimes uses verbal shorthand that offers nitpickers things to complain about. He talks of 1.6 million lost jobs; that's the private-sector loss, partly offset by increased government employment. But the job record is indeed awful. He talks of the $200 billion cost of the Iraq war; actual spending is only $120 billion so far. But nobody doubts that the war will cost at least another $80 billion. The point is that Mr. Kerry can, at most, be accused of using loose language; the thrust of his statements is correct.

Krugman, like many of the Left, are hesitant to identify trends. The job loss stems from something Krugman likes to deemphasize - 9/11. Remember - this guy once said, in all seriousness, that Enron would be seen as bigger than the attacks of 9/11.

According to Mr. Krugman, John Kerry has a crystal ball - he is, in short, the nuanced AND the clairvoyant candidate.

If you can get away with "loose language", you can say anything.

Awfully convenient, isn't it?

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