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January 27, 2004
Krugspeare
Posted by Jon Henke
Critiquing Paul Krugman gets tiresome, so let's switch it up for today's column.
Friends, Americans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Bush, not to praise him.
The tax cuts that Presidents sign lives after them;
The good is oft forgotten in the New York Times.
So let it be with Bush. The noble Krugman
Hath told you Bush was a liar.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously will Bush answer for it.
Come I to speak during Bush's campaign.
He was my President and he gave tax cuts to me.
But Krugman says he lied about that,
And Krugman is an honorable man.
He hath freed many captives in the Middle East,
Whose lives did the mass graves fill.
Did this in Bush seem imperialist?
When that the poor have been unemployed, Bush hath extended unemployment insurance.
Greed should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Krugman says he was greedy,
And Krugman is an honorable man.
I write not to disprove what Krugman wrote,
But here I am to write what I do know.
You did approve of the tax cuts and the war once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you then to vote for him?
O Judgment, thou art fled to brutish demagoguery,
And columnists have lost their reason!
Bear with me.
My heart is in the campaign against hysterical editorials,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
UPDATE: Luskin has more. What he lacks in literary panache, he more than makes up for in actual substance.
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