The Kroog Versus Hoover

Paul Krugman has lost hope in the President.

From today’s radio address:

Government has to start living within its means, just like families do. We have to cut the spending we can’t afford so we can put the economy on sounder footing, and give our businesses the confidence they need to grow and create jobs.

Yep, the false government-family equivalence, the myth of expansionary austerity, and the confidence fairy, all in just two sentences.

And if he had stopped there, he'd have a valid argument.  But then like most of the Manic Progressives, he personalizes and internalizes "Obama's betrayal" and makes it all about himself.

Read this and this to see why he’s wrong. This is truly a tragedy: the great progressive hope (well, I did warn people) is falling all over himself to endorse right-wing economic fallacies.

And thus as the Kroog sees Obama's betrayal in two sentences, he himself becomes the Hamsher...in just one sentence.


Et tu, Kroog?