Krugman: Powerline At Cato

[ProSense]

Powerline At Cato

Via Brad DeLong, I see that the Kochs are trying to take over Cato, which they view as insufficiently hackish.

They must have high standards in this regard; after all, Cato is, among other things, a place that had something called the Project on Social Security Privatization, which it renamed the Project on Social Security Choice when it turned out that “privatization” polled badly — and tried to purge its records, to make it look as if they had never used the word privatization.

But what really struck me was that among the people the Kochs have tried to place on the board is John Hinderaker of Powerline. Hinderaker is best known for this:

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile.

But what I remember best is his sneering dismissal of any suggestion that there might be a housing bubble, or that falling home prices would do any economic damage.

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http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/powerline-at-cato/

Now, that's extremely bizarre!

[hifiguy]

1. I once worked for John Hinderaker.

Calling him a piece of human sewage is an insult to sewage everywhere.

[rurallib]

2. somehow, I missed the genius of W

I must lack a faculty to recognize genius.
are Santorum or Paul also geniuses (genii?) I am missing?

[bluedigger]

3. How do you make it from one day to the next with such a dearth of perceptivity?

[woo me with science]

4. Both parties want to move in this direction,

because both parties are purchased by the one percent.

The payroll tax cut threatens SS by tying it to the general fund, which is why Obama supports it. The Republican "cave" was nothing but collusion, and was predictable as hell.

Occupy.

[ProSense]

5. So

"Both parties want to move in this direction, because both parties are purchased by the one percent."

...both parties want to take over Cato and install a Bush tool as its head?

What the hell does your comment have to do with the OP?