>>Granted, Paul Krugman is a liberal. (Also a Nobel Prize winner in economics). He's still got a point.
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>>Why are Republicans reluctant to sit down and talk? Because they would then be forced to put up or shut up. Since they’re adamantly opposed to reducing the deficit with tax increases, they would have to explain what spending they want to cut. And guess what? After three decades of preparing the ground for this moment, they’re still not willing to do that.
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>Why add the reference to Nobel Prize? When they gave it to AL Gore and Nobama for purely political reasons, they lost all respect in my mind. So to qualify your statmeent with that, in my opinion, is absurd.

That's a valid point. It does seem less likely that a Nobel in economics would be less political, but maybe not.

BTW, I agree giving the Peace Prize to Obama at this point was absurd (and have said so before).