Krugman: The Dishonesty Thing

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/opinion/10krugman.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

It's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.

It's the same pattern of dishonesty, this time involving personal matters that the public can easily understand, that some of us have long seen on policy issues, from global warming to the war in Iraq. On budget matters, which is where I came in, serious analysts now take administration dishonesty for granted.

It wasn't always that way. Three years ago, those of us who accused the administration of cooking the budget books were ourselves accused, by moderates as well as by Bush loyalists, of being "shrill." These days the coalition of the shrill has widened to include almost every independent budget expert.

For example, back in February the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities accused the Bush administration of, in effect, playing three-card monte with budget forecasts. It pointed out that the administration's deficit forecast was far above those of independent analysts, and suggested that this exaggeration was deliberate.

[wtmusic]

1. Volcker: 75% chance of a fiscal crisis in the next five years

Last one out of the stock market turn out the lights.

[Demeter]

8. Prithee Tell Me What We Edured These Last 4 Years?

If that wasn't a financial crisis, or rather, a series of rolling financial crises, then what was it? For too many Americans, the crisis has come and never left: jobs gone, careers destroyed, savings, houses, medical insurance, pensions...and hope.

[jean]

2. I now hear Krugman's 'voice' in his words, after hearing him speak on

AAR and in other forums. Reading his articles has become an even richer experience.

[grytpype]

3. The Op-Ed pages are blazing against Bush...

[tom_paine]

6. What a shame they have little power compared to Imperial TV Pravda

which is currently GIDDY that the Emperor is now "in the lead".

Insanity.

[Dudley_DUright]

4. Krugman is a charter member of the coalition of the shrill

If only more so called journalists would join, we would not have to suffer through another four years of Bushco.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. AM kick

[Moderator]

7. Kick

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[Mecil]

9. kick

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[barb162]

10. Krugman is the best

Kerry should make him Treasury Secretary