Speaking of pretty faces...

What Krugman is to the Times,
Klein, Ezra is to the WaPo, a prettier face perhaps, but one of these "economist/journalist" liberal guys who helped to pimp the government's unconsitutional healthcare bill into passage, when Congress was busy playing Santa Claus before Christmas break last year. (Where will the adults be, do you suppose, when the bills -- the financial, not legislative bills -- on these easy promises come due? Collecting Social Security on top of their mega-incomes and pensions is my guess...)

Both Krugman and Klein allegedly participated in the secretive "Journolist" discussions that had journalists privately conferring with each other to tailor the administration's "pro-healthcare" bill spin. Instead of acting as neutral journalists, they conspired to help the thing pass.

And told us, "Just wait, once the public sees what's in it, they'll like it well enough."

Time came and went. Even with the guarantees for students/young adults to be carried on their parents plan up to age 26, even with the senior breaks that AARP negotiated for their demographic, even with the "nothing will change" promises... well the public still isn't buying it.

And with the legal arguments advancing, that this mandate thing pushes the Commerce Clause precedent just a bit too far, how do the economic Spinmeisters respond?

Why, just dismiss the Constitution in terms of importance, of course! (Now why didn't we think of that, eh?)

Ah, that Ez. Always quick with the easy answers. It is a pretty face, though, no? Maybe if you just leave the sound off...


UPDATE: I erred above in using the term, Spinmeister. The self-described word for the work they do is a "Wonk". Not a cog. A Wonk. So: textbook authors, journalists, economists, Mister predictors, spokesmen for the left on the political shows... how do they find the time to specialize and become all-knowing in all that? Must be in the genes, eh?