Paul Krugman: Missing Richard Nixon

You know things are REALLY BAD in Washington today when Krugman can say that!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/opinion/31krugman.html?_r=1&hp

EXCERPT: ....the right-wing fringe, which has always been around — as an article by the historian Rick Perlstein puts it, “crazy is a pre-existing condition” — has now, in effect, taken over one of our two major parties. Moderate Republicans, the sort of people with whom one might have been able to negotiate a health care deal, have either been driven out of the party or intimidated into silence. Whom are Democrats supposed to reach out to, when Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who was supposed to be the linchpin of any deal, helped feed the “death panel” lies? But there’s another reason health care reform is much harder now than it would have been under Nixon: the vast expansion of corporate influence.