WHAT’S BOB KUTTNER SMOKING?

“Now Bush has abandoned all pretense of governing from the center, and congressional Democrats are uncertain whether to muster wall-to-wall opposition.” – Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect. Bush has even abandoned the pretense of governing from the center? It’s statements like that that make you wonder whether the man has lost touch with reality. My favorite Kuttner moment, however, was a cover-story he did for The New Republic while I was deputy editor. It was written just as the last recession was ending and predicted the future of the economy in the 1990s. It was called: “The Abyss.” Doesn’t get any more prescient than that. Maybe he should get a job at the Economist.