Gene Lyons on bickering

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During a recent forum at the Cato Institute in Washington, Bartlett variously described the Bush administration as “unconscionable,” “ irresponsible, ” “vindictive” and “inept.” He then wrote a very odd column in The New York Times making excuses for his intellectual cowardice. See, it had been all too easy for Times columnist (and Princeton economist ) Paul Krugman—whom Bartlett once compared unfavorably to Uncle Scrooge’s irascible nephew, Donald Duck—to tell the truth about Bush’s fantastical budget numbers. As a tenured academic, Krugman had job security.

In Washington, that’s what passes for an apology. You might want to keep it in mind when evaluating the pronouncements of the resident intellectuals at the McDuck Foundation for Godly Journalism and the McDuck Institute of Strategic Studies.

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