Krugmaniad no more

Time$elect was really a great crutch that I relied on. Every Monday and Friday, if I had nothing to say and no desire to fake it, as I usually do, I could simply provide a public good by liberating Paul Krugman from behind the firewall. No more. Go read him yourself.

There won’t be a serious Republican alternative. The health care plans of the leading Republican candidates, such as they are, are the same old, same old: they principally rely on tax breaks that go mainly to the well-off, but will supposedly conjure up the magic of the market. As Ezra Klein of The American Prospect cruelly but accurately puts it: “The Republican vision is for a world in which the sick and dying get to deduct some of the cost of health insurance that they don’t have — and can’t get — on their taxes.”