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Good Krugman, Bad Krugman

By Big Tent Democrat

Good Krugman:

Now, the pass-the-thing people could be wrong. Maybe hopes of improving the new health care system over time, the way Social Security has been improved, will prove to have been fantasies; or maybe rejecting this bill and trying again, a strategy that has failed many times in the past, would work this time. But it’s a carefully thought-out, honest position. And arriving at that position has, in my case at least, required a lot of agonized soul-searching.

I am not sure I agree with Krugman, and he really offers me nothing substantive here to help me make up my mind, but I appreciate his acceptance that it does not require being "batsh*t crazy" to disagree. But now comes Bad Krugman:

And maybe I’m being unfair, but I don’t seem to see the same degree of soul-searching on the other side. Too much of what I read seems to come from people who haven’t really faced up to what it will mean for progressive hopes — not to mention America’s uninsured — if health care reform crashes and burns, yet again.

Unfair is not the word for it. Just plain stupid actually. There are agonizers and un-agonizers on both sides. Bad Krugman.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).