[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>First, Democrats and moderate Republicans created institutions — above all, Social Security and Medicare — that provided a measure of financial security to ordinary working Americans. The biggest beneficiaries of these institutions were African-Americans and working-class Southern whites, and both were part of the moderate-to-liberal coalition that dominated American politics until the 1960's.

Does this sound almost like Genesis. This guy worships government. To him, it's gone beyond being a lever or a tool. Krugman practises programatic fetishism. He endows Medicare and SS with mythic, religeous potency. He ignores the obvious fact that both are vampiring our national treasury and will turn generations of Americans against one another as they bankrupt America's future.

Krugman makes slightly more sense than the Branch Davidians. Just not much.

[okie01]

But the right opened an increasingly effective counterattack, with a strategy that included using racially charged symbolism to get Southern whites to vote against their own economic interests.

I believe the above is proof that Krugman is on the DNC fax list. "Southern whites voting against their own economic interest" has become a mantra -- like gravitas.

If I've seen this line once, I've seen it a dozen times in the past week. It's all the rage, it seems, among the mainstream media...