Obama Staffer Bashes Krugman, "Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere"

Amanda Terkel at HuffPo has an article entitled: Obama Campaign Staffer Sends Out Email Bashing Paul Krugman And The 'Firebagger Lefty Blogosphere'.

Here's a portion:

Paul Krugman is a political rookie. At least he is when compared to President Obama. That's why he unleashed a screed as soon as word came about the debt ceiling compromise between President Obama and Congressional leaders - to, you know, avert an economic 9/11. Joining the ideologue spheres' pure, fanatic, indomitable hysteria, Krugman declares the deal a disaster - both political and economic - of course providing no evidence for the latter, which I find curious for this Nobel winning economist. He rides the coattails of the simplistic argument that spending cuts - any spending cuts - are bad for a fragile economy, ignoring wholeheartedly his own revious cheerleading for cutting, say, defense spending. But that was back in the day - all the way back in April of this year. [...]

No, the loudest screeching noise you hear coming from Krugman and the ideologue Left is, of course, Medicare. Oh, no, the President is agreeing to a Medicare trigger!!! Oh noes!!! Everybody freak out right now! But let's look at the deal again, shall we? [...]

Now let's get to the fun part: the triggers. The more than half-a-trillion in defense and security spending cut "trigger" for the Republicans will hardly earn a mention on the Firebagger Lefty blogosphere. Hell, it's a trigger supposedly for the Republicans, and of course, there's always It'sNotEnough-ism to cover it.

"Firebagger Lefty" is apparently a reference to Jane Hamshere's FireDogLake, a lefty site that frequently takes Obama to task. And yes, it's pretty far out there. But Krugman is my political soulmate, and I wish Obama had surrounded himself with economic advisers like Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, and Jared Bernstein, instead of Wall Street lackeys and refugees from Goldman Sachs like Summers, Geithner, and Daley.