Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

It's just funny, because you have Krugman who is almost a cliche academic sitting there next to O'Reilly and they never get past one point -- which in all fairness to Krugman, he was generally right on.

It's funny too to see O'Reilly, and the whole right-side punditry's response. There is only a black or white option. Krugman is an economist, and they are rarely opposed to tax cuts, but the whole thrust of his book was that (a) the real ramifications and even nature of the tax cuts, like the drug bill, were consistently misstated publicly by the administration, and (b) if economic stimulus is your goal, while "any" non-revenue neutral action by the goverment will provide it, these tax cuts were by design particularly ineffective as the bulk of the cuts went to sectors where they wouldn't drive consumer spending.

Anybody remember when political shows were "boring" and they actually talked about stuff rather than just shouting?