Posted By GM Roper on August 30, 2010

The gentleman to the left of this paragraph is Paul Krugman, erstwhile columnist for the New York Times, the Gray Lady, the Paper of Record, The Democrats Propaganda Ministry. Well, maybe I’m slightly exaggerating on the last “title”. But not much of an exaggeration for sure.
Mr. Krugman’s column today (August 30, 2010) is entitled “It’s Witch-Hunt Season” and he starts by castigating the right:
“The last time a Democrat sat in the White House, he faced a nonstop witch hunt by his political opponents. Prominent figures on the right accused Bill and Hillary Clinton of everything from drug smuggling to murder.”
Krugman is of course, correct, the Clinton’s were in fact taken to task time and time again because of their perceived violations of standards; ethical, legal, etc. Most of it was deserved, some of it wasn’t. I never bought the idea that Vince Foster was murdered in the White House for example, but Hillary did make a small fortune trading futures under dubious circumstances; Hillary developed amnesia when it came to remembering what she had done as an attorney; she misplaced in plain sight in the White House subpoenaed records; Bill and Hillary did invest in a scam called “White Water” and of course, the President spent a large part of his last term explaining that he didn’t have sex with that woman and then, when, as Christopher Hitchens so famously noted there was “No One Left To Lie To” he confessed that he did have “an improper relationship” (hell, Mr. Clinton, you were her boss, it was an illegal relationship under the sexual harassment laws you signed into being). Of course, that was not witch hunting, that was speculation that all turned out to be true.
Clinton all but single-handedly turned the congress over to the Republicans in 1994 and it looks very much like Obama may do exactly the same in 2010.
No doubt, there were excesses in decrying the behavior, real and imagined, of the Clintons, but then Mr. Krugman seems to have developed a spot in his brain where the years 2000-2008 are completely blank in terms of Witch-Huntery.
Mr. Krugman, please, sit down and let me remind you of a few comments made by you in various Bush years:
1. “George Bush’s America has become a byword for deception and abuse of power.” (March 30, 2004)
2. “The Bush administration, by the way, opposed labor standards, not because it wanted to keep imports cheap, but because it was afraid that America would end up being forced to improve its own labor policies.” (May 14, 2007)
3. “It’s hard to believe that the world’s only superpower is on the verge of losing not just one but two wars. But the arithmetic of stability operations suggests that unless we give up our futile efforts in Iraq, we’re on track to do just that.” (October 27, 2006)
4. “I think it’s because most Americans sense, correctly, that he [Bush] doesn’t care about people like them.” (March 6, 2006)
5. “[Meanwhile] Mr. Bush has made it clear that he intends to raid the funds that were supposed to support the baby boomers in their retirement.” (March 7. 2001)
The comments of those that agree with you in many, if not the vast, vast majority of your columns during the Bush years would indicate that you enjoyed, or at least sanctioned the witch hunt by the left.
So, you see Mr. Krugman, that Witch Hunting canard is just that, a witch hunt and you are the one that engaged in it, right up to your neck.
UPDATE: More witch hunting from the left as documented at American Thinker: Who’re you calling a bigot?
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