It’s hard for me to read James Taranto’s catalog of instances of wishful thinking overwhelming Paul Krugman’s undoubted reasoning faculties without relating the inability of Congress to arrive at even commonsense compromises with its becoming increasingly sorted into opposing ideological camps with the most liberal Republican more conservative than the most conservative Democrat.
There’s nothing like questioning your own conclusions and your own views to enable you to see the other side’s point of view and arrive at workable compromises.
