John Boehner and Barack Obama

I’m posting this entire post from Paul Krugman’s blog over at the New York Times website. Thanks to Scott for the heads up.

My Obama Problem

John Boehner, March 2009:

          It’s time for government to tighten their belts and show the American people that we ‘get’ it

Barack Obama, yesterday:

          “At a time when so many families are tightening their belts, he’s going to make sure that the government continues to tighten its own,” Obama said. “

We’ll never know how differently the politics would have played if Obama, instead of systematically echoing and giving credibility to all the arguments of the people who want to destroy him, had actually stood up for a different economic philosophy. But we do know how his actual strategy has worked, and it hasn’t been a success.

The Conscience of a Liberal: My Obama Problem