OK, Greg is, as I understand it, fairly svelte, and a distinguished Harvard professor to boot, but when you write a blog you go for the jugular. My sometime sparring partner/punching bag Brad DeLong, who really could stand to lose a few pounds, here knocks the stuffing out of Greg’s continuing whine that if those Democrats raise his taxes, well, maybe Greg won’t write all those snappy columns for the New York Times that we’ve grown to know and love.
As Brad points out, as one of George W. Bush’s advisors, Greg watched as George Jr. gleefully ran up the federal debt by hundreds of billions of dollars for political purposes, leaving office with the country mired in two bloody, useless, expensive wars, not to mention the worst financial crisis in eighty years. If Greg thought any of this was a bad idea, he certainly kept his thoughts to himself.
The bill for eight years of staggering incompetence, stupidity, and deceit is now coming due, and Greg is so mad that he might be asked to pay for 0.00000002 percent of this crap, crap that some people might even suggest is in some small way his own goddamn fault, well, I’m sorry, folks, but you do not mess with Greg fucking Mankiw like this. Because if you do, he will stop writing for the New York Times! Stick that in your ear, Obama-boy, and see how it feels!
