It truly is remarkable, that somehow the Washington Post somehow, for whatever strange reason, still gets noted as a 'Liberal' paper by people who probably should know better. With such luminaries as Fred Hiatt, Michael Gerson, Bob Novak, Dean Broder, and the like populating the majority of their Op-Ed pages every day, as well as their insipidly faux-'balanced' political coverage, it really is very much the standard bearer for general Beltway myopia.
So I shouldn't be terribly surprised that lo and behold, with Economy the top concerns of most Americans, and further concerns about our job market, energy woes, etc., that they would raise the corpse of the career of one of the more insipid Economic hacks in Donald Luskin to tell us "Shut up, the Economy is fine!!" Because that line did Phil Gramm SO well...
This is the same Donald Luskin that, when Paul Krugman sounded the alarm on a possible mortgage crisis many moons ago, claimed he was an 'Emperor With No Clothes', and continued to harangue Krugman for what would become prescient concerns. (more after the break)
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