Krugman finally gets it right — The Republicans as crisis-creators

by Gaius Publius on 7/17/2010 04:36:00 PM

I don't mean Krugman finally "gets it right" about economics; he's done that many times over. Paul Krugman finally calls the Republican playbook correctly, in terms of its real goals.

It's one thing to say the talk doesn't match the walk, something he's been saying a lot lately. It's another to say why — and make sense. In the Friday column he says why, and makes sense. Finally.