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How did tenacious Hillary Clinton supporter and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman congratulate Barack Obama’s nomination? He didn’t! “Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America,” Krugman opens today’s column. “With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward. Mr. Obama is an impressive speaker who has run a brilliant campaign — but if he wins in November, it will be because our country has already been transformed.” Uh oh! It seems we’re dealing with a douchebag here. MORE »

It’s hard not to feel a little bad for Paul Krugman and Sean Wilentz, Princeton’s two Big Time academics who seem hell-bent on going down with the Good Ship Clinton when the real party’s somewhere else. Wilentz, a famous American historian, has moved on from spitting at Obama for playing the race card, but now is saying that if the Democratic party had completely different rules, and the primaries were counted one way and not another, Hillary would obviously win and therefore she should: MORE »

Now that Barack Obama’s victory appears pretty likely, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman must be drinking alone in his apartment, even though he knows the Obama health care plan will not cover his psoriasis later in life. Get well soon, you sad panda. Anyway, guess what “lightning rod conservative” columnist Bill Kristol thinks about Barack Obama’s hatred of America? MORE »

New York Times‘ health care columnist Paul Krugman wrote a column today, it being a Friday and such, and it’s about our flourishing economy. But the real Paul Krugman, the whiny ex-Nobel contender we’ve enjoyed so thoroughly this Democratic primary season, offered his juiciest insight in a brief blog post this morning: one time the Times edited him! Since when does the Times edit Krugman (or anyone else)? MORE »

It seems New York Times health care columnist Paul Krugman has taken a President’s Day vacation from predictable Hillary-coddling; in today’s column, he criticizes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for not caring about poverty as much as John Edwards fake-cared. Krugman’s so-so fare today allows “lightning rod conservative” columnist Bill Kristol to dazzle in his stead, like in the good old days. MORE »

Hillary’s going to be swept in Maryland, DC and Virginia today, then she is going to lose Wisconsin and Hawaii next week. So here’s the Clinton campaign’s goal for the month of February: Don’t lose Wisconsin by very much! She’s running this new ad in the… cheese state… and is utilizing everyone’s favorite Obama hater, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, to “pimp out” her plan. [YouTube]

Indeed, that is the essence of a Paul Krugman column in everyone’s favorite New York Times these days: Clinton rules, as does her health care package with mandates that keep everyone’s premiums to a percentage of their income!!! Hope on that, Barry. Anyway, “rules” is actually meant in the “regulations” sense, not the schoolboy taunting way. Let’s see what Obama’s #1 hater has to say! MORE »

Mondays sure are exciting in the New York Times op-ed pages these days. Whose column makes a better argument for the destruction of the NYT in toto: Bill Kristol’s or Paul Krugman’s? While last week’s prize went to Krugman, Kristol retakes his rightful throne this week as the worst columnist on the planet, Earth. MORE »

That honor would go to Paul Krugman, the liberal economist! While Kristol’s column was a vague recap of some already well-aired “spins” on Obama’s big South Carolina win, it wasn’t his usual manic fascism, but still had lots of typos. It was just phoned in. Krugman, on the other hand, offers an interesting new angle to his famous Clinton obsession: Barry’s campaign in 2008 is the exact same thing as Clinton’s in 1992, and look how much shit Clinton had to eat when he took over! In other words, this fairy Obama is doomed for failure like Clinton, whose wife we should now elect. MORE »

*HOW MUCH DID THEY PAY FOR THAT ONE:* The kids at Radar hear that the New York Times will endorse Hillary Clinton for president in a weekend editorial. Somewhere Paul Krugman is skipping and singing his favorite gleeful showtunes, while Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd are moving to France in whiny sobs. [Radar]

• Krugman: Boilerplate GOP-bashing becomes Talking Heads homage. (’Now, as they survey the wreckage of their cause, conservatives may ask themselves: “Well, how did we get here?” They may tell themselves: “This is not my beautiful Right.” They may ask themselves: “My God, what have we done?”‘)

• The Note: Eight paragraphs of inexplicable and terrible Springsteen gags. (”Former senator Fred Thompson knows no brilliant disguise will compensate for a bad debate tomorrow”)

Oy. MORE »