The Sideshow on moral clarity:
And that’s why I absolutely take issue with people who characterize Paul Krugman as “partisan”
or “shrill”. Krugman is telling the unvarnished truth. The administration is demonstrably lying
about its economic policies and everything else as well. These people aren’t simply guilty of
gracelessness, they’re not merely arrogant (although they are that, too), and they aren’t even
just wrong – they are lying, and they are trying to overturn our precious Constitution and to
keep the truth from us. They deliberately prevented our intelligence agencies from investigating
Al Qaeda prior to 9/11, virtually guaranteeing that nothing and no one could stop the attack on
the Twin Towers and the Pentagon – and they sure don’t want a public investigation to make that
clear to the world (and, more importantly, to the fools who voted for them). They are now
embarking on an absolutely irresponsible war that will cause hellacious damage to us and to the
world, and they are uninterested in even obeying the restraints the Constitution itself places on
them. They are emptying our treasury and funnelling your Social Security money into the pockets
of the immorally rich. Any wholly disinterested party would be able to see it and say so.