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Dartboard could devote a column to all that is unlikeable about Davis, from his transparent venality to his spineless centrism to his inhumanly flawless hair-do. And yet with the exception of his hair, these are fairly common vices among politicians. Moreover, while they feed into California voters’ general antipathy toward their governor, these are not the crimes the recall crowd has accused Davis of perpetrating. The damning pieces of evidence, say Davis’ opponents, are the electiricity crisis of two summers ago and the present budget deficit...
When he began his column in 1999, Krugman told the crowd, “I expected to write about the follies of the new economy. The last thing I expected was to be a Jeremiah, warning about terrible things to come...
...column has evolved over the past four years into a bully pulpit for criticizing George W. Bush and his administration, accusing the White House of pursuing wrongheaded fiscal policies and telling outright lies to promote them...
...also what has made him a highly controversial figure, and according to him, a target for the Right’s vitriol. Krugman received hate-mail after suggesting that Bush was exploiting the terrorist attacks to achieve his pre-Sept. 11 budgetary and foreign policy objectives. In a column on February 5, 2002, he wrote, “In short, the administration’s strategy is to prevent criticism of what amounts to a fiscal debacle by wrapping its budget in the flag.” Krugman even labels a section of his book “A Vast...
Sasha Post ’05 is a social studies concentrator in Adams House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...