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The loyal opposition


Paul Krugman weighs in on the stimulus impasse.

Aside from Snowe, Collins, Specter and a handful of others who are probably yes votes, Republican opposition falls into two camps. 

The first is composed of supply-siders who believe government is the source of all evil and push their tax-cutting ideology in the face of nearly a decade of evidence that it doesn't work.

The other is the Limbaugh faction. These cynical clowns see economic collapse as a strategy to bring back Karl Rove's permanent Republican majority. 

It's one thing to oppose a plan because you think it might fail. But it increasingly appears that a majority is willing to risk everything on a bet it will.

Out of touch with reality? I wish it were that simple.



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