Monday, April 27, 2009

Krugman on Bybee and the ‘Apparatchiks’ from Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines


Krugman

Clearly, Paul Krugman, pictured at right, is no fan of federal Judge Jay Bybee, legislative enabler of the "enhanced interrogation technique" that's become one shameful symbol of the past eight years: waterboarding. You know it's not good when Newt Gingrich is held up as a paragon of a bygone, and preferable, brand of Republicanism.

Paul Krugman in The New York Times:

And here's the thing: most prominent Republicans are just the same. We wonder how someone as hapless as John Boehner could be minority leader, why one Congressman after another abjectly apologizes to Rush Limbaugh, and so on; the answer is that they're hollow men, careerists who thought they had a safe ride. If someone like Newt Gingrich seems like a giant in his party these days, that's because, say what you like about him (and I don't like much about him!), he got into the business when doing so involved taking some actual risks.

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