Quote of the Day

MANIFESTO

We don’t know what the economic policies of a McCain-Palin administration would have been.
We do know, however, what Republicans in opposition have been saying—and it boils
down to demanding that the government stop standing in the way of a possible depression.

—Paul Krugman on why the federal government's involvement
was indispensable in preventing another Great Depression

This pretty much nails it, along with Krugman's assertion that "Ronald Reagan was wrong: sometimes the private sector is the problem, and government is the solution."

The fact that the country dodged a pretty serious bullet in the past year as a result of government intervention is obviously lost on the anti-health care reform crowd.