Idiot

I was going to pile on Sully about his moronic statement supporting Bush's Social Security clusterfuckery. His position apparently has its logical basis as being...I'm for whatever Krugman's against. The fact that this was, at its essence, the reason he supported Bush's "brilliant" Iraqi War doesn't seem to have caused him a moment of pause (so you know he's a good little punditbot).

But why should I not just restate what Josh Marshall (boy wonder Matt Yglesias filling in) already did it so thoroughly:

And when congress voted to cut Medicaid and food stamps Andrew said . . . well . . . well he didn't say anything about it, did he? And that's the point. I don't know if he thinks cutting Medicaid and food stamps while piling on tax cuts for the rich is a good idea or not. More likely, he's just a bit indifferent to it. Which is just the way these things go. Once a program becomes the narrow concern of a minority of the population -- and not just any minority, but a minority that can't afford lobbysists, doesn't enjoy access to the media, is socially isolated from the American elite, etc. -- it gets squeezed out in favor of programs whose constituents do enjoy those things. There's no flailing here.