Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

More end-of-the-week punditry. Here's a few you know you wanted to read again.

Paul Krugman:

What should be done? The United States and Europe should just say "Yes, prime minister." The British plan isn’t perfect, but there’s widespread agreement among economists that it offers by far the best available template for a broader rescue effort.

And the time to act is now. You may think that things can’t get any worse — but they can, and if nothing is done in the next few days, they will.

EJ Dionne: It's Hoover vs Roosevelt, aka 1932

George Will (reprise):

In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign's attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama's Chicago associations seems surreal -- or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, "like being savaged by a dead sheep."

Garrison Keillor:

Some Republicans adore her because they are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups. The ne'er-do-well son of the old Republican family as president, the idea that you increase government revenue by cutting taxes, the idea that you cut social services and thereby drive the needy into the middle class, the idea that you overthrow a dictator with a show of force and achieve democracy at no cost to yourself—one stink bomb after another, and now Gov. Sarah Palin.

Joe Conason: Look, I know just as much as you do that McCain sold his soul to win the election. I just think it's sad.

David Broder: I am becoming increasingly frustrated and despondent that Barack Obama refuses to lose the election as I suggest.

Patt Morrison: Look, the trouble with "W" is that after 8 years, who wants to spend two more hours with this asshole, even if it is a movie?

Joe Klein:

Watch the tape of the guy screaming, "He's a terrorist!" McCain seems to shudder at that, he rolls his eyes... and I thought for a moment he'd admonish the man. But he didn't. And now he's selling the Ayres non-story full-time. Yes, yes, it's all he has. True enough: he no longer has his honor. But we are on the edge of some real serious craziness here and it would be nice if McCain did the right thing and told his more bloodthirsty supporters to go home and take a cold shower. But McCain hasn't done the right thing all year. His campaign is appalling, as the New York Times editorial board said today--and more, it is a national disgrace.