What May Come

Nov 1st, 2010


On Friday, Paul Krugman responded to the various pundits who've been saying a big republican win tomorrow is either no big deal or might even be a positive for democrats.

"This is going to be terrible. In fact, future historians will probably look back at the 2010 election as a catastrophe for America, one that condemned the nation to years of political chaos and economic weakness."






As for the allegations of an upside to a right wing sweep, Krugman references a recent Mitch McConnell interview in the National Journal.

"Mr. McConnell was saying was that, in 1995, Republicans erred by focusing too much on their policy agenda and not enough on destroying the president: “We suffered from some degree of hubris and acted as if the president was irrelevant and we would roll over him. By the summer of 1995, he was already on the way to being re-elected, and we were hanging on for our lives.” So this time around, he implied, they’ll stay focused on bringing down Mr. Obama."