KRUGMAN..... Bush...The Great Degrader

[rsmith6621]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/the-great-degrader/


I’ve been focused on economic policy lately, so I sort of missed the big push to rehabilitate Bush’s image; also, as a premature anti-Bushist who pointed out how terrible a president he was back when everyone else was praising him as a Great Leader, I’m kind of worn out on the subject.

But it does need to be said: he was a terrible president, arguably the worst ever, and not just for the reasons many others are pointing out.

From what I’ve read, most of the pushback against revisionism focuses on just how bad Bush’s policies were, from the disaster in Iraq to the way he destroyed FEMA, from the way he squandered a budget surplus to the way he drove up Medicare’s costs. And all of that is fair.

[spanone]

1. k&r...the bushit of the last week needed krugman's voice....

[ladjf]

2. From a fiscal standpoint, Krugman would be a good President. However, he might not have

the political skills to succeed. nt

[calimary]

3. If I were President, I'd want him for my Treasury Secretary.

Or maybe Commerce Secretary. Treasury's more likely, though, because that position seems to carry more weight in the financial community.