One of my good friends over on Google+ posted a link to this New York Times blog/article written by Nobel Prize-winning economist and journalist Paul Krugman.

Krugman's article is so full of blatant bullshit. He, along with Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, is living proof the Nobel Prize committee consists of idiots.

First of all, he says "the right is making insane demands." Do you really think "stop spending so much money" is an insane demand? Let's say your wife says, "We've got X dollars per month coming in and you're spending X+Y every month. You need to stop spending so much money." Is she making an insane demand?

Next up is Krugman's assertion that "the president and Democrats in Congress are bending over backward to be accommodating." Oh man, I wish that were true. The president has vowed to veto pretty much everything the House has passed or talks about passing. Sen. Reid wouldn't even allow Senate debate on the House bill that passed. That doesn't sound like bending over backward at all.

Next, Professor Krugman says (with a straight face), we "have a centrist president -- actually a moderate conservative president." That's perhaps the most laughable thing in the whole (short) writeup.

Of course, President Obama and his re-election campaign want us to think he's moderate/centrist. That's the only way he's ever going to get re-elected. He's very good at talking the talk, but facts are prickly, stubborn things. Take his books, for example. They would never be at home alongside other moderate/centrist books. They're very left-leaning. His record in the Illinois state senate also shows him on a very liberal path. His record as U.S. senator doesn't really exist. The last 3 years of him as president has included nationalizing banks and the auto-industry, dramatically increasing the amount of regulation at the federal level, and putting in place a framework for a nationalized healthcare system. Not really the handiwork of a moderate or a centrist.

The ADA awarded him a 95% liberal voting record last year; the year before that, it was a perfect 100%. The American Conservative Union gives him a lifetime rating of 8%; Republican moderate Olympia Snowe has a 50% lifetime rating; Joe Lieberman, thrown out of the party for being too conservative, has a 17% lifetime rating. " (From http://stubbornfacts.us/politics/centrism/barak_obama_centrist )