YEATS ALERT: KRUGMAN AGAIN!

Compare this to his July column, cited below:

Try to explain that when debtors spend less, the economy will be depressed unless somebody else spends more, and they call you a socialist. Try to explain why mortgage relief is better for America than foreclosing on homes that must be sold at a huge loss, and they start ranting like Mr. Santelli. No question about it:... the moralizers are filled with a passionate intensity. And those who should know better lack all conviction.

Where are this man's editors?
See the full piece here. (yes, I'm a little behind with this one....)

YEATS ALERT!

The ideal leader in this mental system is free from moral anxiety but full of passionate intensity. This leader pushes his troops in lock step before the voracious foe. Each party has its own version of whom the evil elites are, but both feel they’ve more to fear from their enemies than from their own sinfulness.

David Brooks, shame on you. See the whole article here.