By Mr. Curmudgeon
You have to hand it to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. He tells you what most politicians believe but won't say in public. Speaking of us idiots who oppose the unbridled power of the state, Krugman says “the evidence suggests that issues don't matter…in part because voters are often deeply ill informed.”
“There's no point berating voters for their ignorance,” Krugman tells Washington's doomed incumbents, “people have bills to pay and children to raise, and most don't spend their free time studying fact sheets. Instead, they react to what they see in their own lives and the lives of people they know. Given the realities of a bleak employment picture, Americans are unhappy - and they're set to punish those in office.”
Could it be that voter revulsion at “what they see in their own lives and the lives of people they know” has something to do with the bipartisan big-government policies of today's Washington?
Contrary to what Democrats and the media tell us, like US immigration law, tools for regulatory oversight of Wall Street, Freddy Mac and Fanny Mae were already in place. They simply weren't enforced. Our current economic crisis, which resulted from a bipartisan affordable-housing policy from Congress and easy-money policies from the Federal Reserve, are a damning indictment of “deeply ill informed” big government. “Oops, sorry, we'll do better next time” won't do.
Disengaged voters beget disengaged politicians. What frightens Krugman, Obama and clueless Beltway Republicans is that the sleeping American giant appears to be waking. The terrifying realization that keeps Krugman up at night is that a new breed of representative is heading to Washington that may begin dismantling that corrupt cesspool's Keynesian leviathan.
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