I continue to be puzzled by the fact that grown-ups — people who who aren’t religious bigots or jingoists and who understand that a tax cut not matched with spending restraint is just a tax shift from the present to the future and (in this case) from the millionaires to the rest of the population — are still thinking about voting for George W. Bush.
My thanks, then, to Allan Connery, commenting on Brad DeLong’s site, for making sense of the proposition that the appalling record of this Administration justifies the President’s re-election. He summarizes the position of, e.g., The Economist, as follows:
Mr. Bush has failed his first term and must repeat it.
Ivory towers
Hei Lun of Begging to Differ has an interesting rebuttal to claims from the left that most people should vote for the Democratic Party out of economic self-interest. His specific rebuttal is to Chris Bertram, but it applies equally to…