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WINGERS AND THE ECONOMY….I read Charles Krauthammer’s column this morning — yet more proof, if more were needed, that people with very high IQs can also be very, very stupid — and I got to wondering. A developing meme on the right suggests that our recent economic meltdown isn’t really the fault of the free market having a heart attack at all, but rather the fault of the government performing triple bypass surgery in response to what was really no more than some free market heartburn. And so I wonder: Is this really going to be the National Review/WSJ editorial page/Grover Norquist line going forward? And if it is, what’s the right response? Sober op-eds explaining why they’re wrong? Or dismissive laughter? I’m thinking the latter.
