Mickey Kaus Skewers Krugman

Mickey Kaus is no friend of George Bush's. But Paul Krugman is so extreme that Kaus feels compelled to administer a fisking.

"Krugman, revealingly, fails to grasp the meaning of the Orwell quote he starts with, no? It seems pretty clear to me that what Orwell's describing is the way our unconscious mind often deceives our conscious mind--until we're finally forced by brutal reality to change (or until we're extinguished on the battlefield). Krugman converts this not unsubtle insight into the crude: "So they lied to us; what else is new?"