THE IDIOCY OF THE BRIGHTS:

Obama Liquidates Himself (Paul Krugman, 1/16/10, NY Times)

A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their first serious political setback? [...]

And it’s a betrayal of everything Obama’s supporters thought they were working for. Just like that, Obama has embraced and validated the Republican world-view — and more specifically, he has embraced the policy ideas of the man he defeated in 2008. A correspondent writes, “I feel like an idiot for supporting this guy.”