Matt Stoller rebuts his critics

[JackRiddler]

7. Here's the link to Stoller's column in original.

Surely the best option?

Naked Capitalism, “A Home for All Sorts of Bircher Nonsense”

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/naked-capitalism-a-home-for-all-sorts-of-bircher-nonsense.html

By Matt Stoller, "former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute."

It's well worth reading in full, as the writer intended it, before moving on to the predictable spin and misrepresentations.*

Hint: It's not really about Ron Paul.

In Stoller's words:

But Paul, by criticizing American empire explicitly and its financing channels in the form of the Federal Reserve, also enrages liberals by forcing them to acknowledge that their political economy no longer produces liberal ends.

I’ll be describing in much more detail the shifting of the social contract underlying this failure, which has nothing to do with Ron Paul and would exist with or without him. For now, I think it’s useful to chronicle the multiple reactions from partisan Democrats.

Stoller then proceeds to do both, admirably. (He does not touch upon Austrian economics, or Johnny Reb, or any of the other matters which the OP of this thread brings up as a way to distract from Stoller's thesis and falsely associate him with Bad Things.)

To see for yourself, just follow the link to the original article. (Don't worry, even if you disagree it won't bite and it won't magically turn you into a Ron Paul supporter, or lose the election for Obama.)

But thanks to ProSense for drawing attention to this important and excellent piece.