Steve Benen said it, summarizing an unusually clear-minded and un-post-modern Jackie Calmes story in the NYT:
Current GOP officials aren’t just wrong about stimulus, the timing of budget cuts, taxes, debt reduction, or monetary policy — they’re wrong about all of them at the same time.
It’s fair to note that even Calmes’s piece accepts as gospel two claims that seem to me transparently false: that cutting federal spending is generally a good idea and that raising marginal tax rates will stunt economic growth. But that’s just testimony to the extent to which Grover Norquist and his corporate sponsors have, by ceaselessly repeating falsehoods, converted them into received truths.