Disaster and Denial
December 15, 2009 7:44 pm

Paul Krugman...

When I first began writing for The Times, I was naive about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by evidence, that they would change their views if events completely refuted their beliefs......

Talk to conservatives about the financial crisis and you enter an alternative, bizarro universe in which government bureaucrats, not greedy bankers, caused the meltdown. It's a universe in which government-sponsored lending agencies triggered the crisis, even though private lenders actually made the vast majority of subprime loans. It's a universe in which regulators coerced bankers into making loans to unqualified borrowers, even though only one of the top 25 subprime lenders was subject to the regulations in question.

Oh, and conservatives simply ignore the catastrophe in commercial real estate: in their universe the only bad loans were those made to poor people and members of minority groups, because bad loans to developers of shopping malls and office towers don't fit the narrative......

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Apparently, You Don't Have to Read Health Bill if you are Opposed
December 15, 2009 10:39 pm

Finally:

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Jon Stewart Slams Ingraham For Comparing Health Care Reform To Holocaust
December 18, 2009 11:25 am

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