What Goes 'round, Comes Around...

Help me out here:
is Mr. Paul Krugman calling Rahm Emanuel a "right-wing ideologue"?

So hard to keep up with this political nonsense; some days it seems like these party mentalities are interchangeable....

From Chile in the 1970s onward, she suggested, right-wing ideologues have exploited crises to push through an agenda that has nothing to do with resolving those crises, and everything to do with imposing their vision of a harsher, more unequal, less democratic society.

Which brings us to Wisconsin 2011, where the shock doctrine is on full display.

Rahm Emanuel, circa 2008:
"You never want a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do..."

Maybe it's some insider Journolister meme that I'm just plain missing?
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And the Brooks column today:

Since 2004, the 49 other states in the nation increased their debt levels by an average of 40 percent. Indiana has paid down its debt by 40 percent. Indiana received its first Triple-A bond rating in 2008, and now it is one of only nine states to have the highest rating from all three rating agencies.

At the same time, the business climate has improved significantly. Infrastructure spending is at record levels. The state has added jobs at twice the national average. For the first time in four decades, more people are moving in than moving out.

That's where the majority of the people moving out of the south suburbs are going, btw: Northwest Indiana, which has experienced a building boom as the farmfields are built up to accomodate them...