Paul Krugman says ...

8 Words of Wisdom for Week Ending 3/13/2009 #3

I suggested a little while ago that the GOP has become the party of Beavis and Butthead, reduced to snickering at line items in legislation that sound funny. And we’re not just talking about the usual crazies: we’re taking about Saint John McCain, cracking jokes about “Mormon crickets” and “beaver management” when a minute or two on Google reveals that these are, in fact, serious issues.

But it’s getting truly serious when the House minority leader — essentially, the nation’s second-ranking Republican (after Rush Limbaugh) — declares that the answer to the economy’s downward spiral is a spending freeze. That’s not a retrogression to Herbert Hoover; even Hoover knew better than that.

- Source: The Conscious of a Liberal

Here's a truth about the differences between a liberal and a conservative that I will be repeating, I would imagine, weekly. Liberals learn from the mistakes of the past. Conservatives ignore them.