Doubling down on W (by Paul Krugman)

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6. Krugman really nails it in this.

Essentially, the current GOP theme is, it didn't work under GWB, so we have to do it more and bigger! (They're gambling that fewer than half of the voters will be able to figure out that more of a disastrous policy only produces greater disaster.) It's what I posited as Bush's Law back in the 1988 campaign, illustrated by Poppy Bush: "A politician will be successful in direct proportion to his ability to persuade a majority of voters that the bullshit he is feeding them is actually whipped cream."