Sumner Congratulates Me for Making Making Delong's Page

       Sumner offers his heartfelt congratulations:

       "Mike, Brad must have a lot of free time."

      http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=22205&cpage=1#comment-260843

       Also the conservative Obama hating extraordinaire Patrick Sullivan left me a comment. 

       "Sorry to burst your bubble, guy, but fame is fleeting;

       http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/archives/000947.html

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October 03, 2002

Kudos to Patrick Sullivan

In Army Secretary Tom White: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, Patrick Sullivan wrote: "So Krugman is back on the Sec'y White trail. Up to this point virtually everything he's said about the guy has turned out to be either wrong or grossly distorted. I'm betting that when the context of these e-mails comes out this will also be so. "

Looks like Patrick wins his bet..."

     http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/07/larry-kudlow-krugman-delong-and-day-i.html

    He's probably right about the nature of fame but I'm way too imprudent to take it to heart. Fame may be a bitch but then that's my taste in women as well. 

     I'm not sure what this whole escapade is about that Patrick eludes to. I do know that he is one of those who agrees with George Zimmerman-it sure was suspicious of Trayvon Martin to have been out by himself after 8 p.m/ in a gated community 'looking about.' 

     Speaking of a little matter of a difference of opinion, turns out that most Americans don't agree with Bob Woodward and Maureen Dowd that the big problem in Washington is that the President is 'failing to lead' but rather that the GOP are a bunch of irresponsible obstructionists who will do anything to defeat Obama politically who cares what it does to the good of the country. The idea that anything is done just for the good of the country regardless of the short term perceived interests of the GOP is quite foreign to the Republican party the past 20 years. 

     "According to the latest survey from Quinnipiac University, 51 percent of voters believe gridlock is mainly a result of the congressional GOP's determination to block any of Obama's initiatives. A mere 35 percent blamed gridlock on Obama's lack of "personal skills to convince leaders of Congress to work together." 

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Obama has drawn blame from both Republicans and the press for purportedly being too isolated and unwilling to perform the type of cajoling necessary to making a deal in Washington. Chief among those critics has been New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who blamed Obama for the failure of gun legislation in the Senate because he "doesn’t know how to work the system."

       http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-most-blame-gop-obstruction-for-gridlock-not?ref=fpb

       P.S. With Scott I kind of win either way. If I'm truly not worthy to discuss monetary policy because I don't have the right background as he claims then he still looks bad-after all, if he really is out of league intellectually then he looks like an uncharitable bully. 

      If on the other hand, he's wrong about me, then he's uncharitable in not being able to admit that I am worth reading but just have a different opinion from him. He looks bad either way. 

      Of course he likes to say that in economics there's no such thing as public opinion-as allegedly the public doesn't understand economics-only the econ establishment does. 

      Next, Bob Woodward will be invoking the same principle to explain why no one but the Beltway media buys in the Green Lantern of Presidential Power.