Oh dear.

Here's what another economist blogger Megan McCardle with the Atlantic has to contribute:

Republicans want Brown seated ASAP, if he wins. Democrats, naturally, would like to stretch out the process as long as reasonably possible. I think that if Scott Brown wins tomorrow (sic), we'll be hearing a lot of back and forth on these precedents. My summary: the folks in power tend to do whatever they want. Which is usually okay, because it just doesn't matter that much.

Oooooo-k, then. My understanding is that Megan's engaged to somebody who works in the CBO, so presumably she's in this economic analysis stuff for the short term. Hence the copy above.

Somehow, I think we were all better off when they were just content to play cheerleaders.