Paul Krugman continues to carry water for Hillary Clinton, with another hit piece on Barack Obama and his health care proposals in the New York Times.
 
Krugman suggests you need to go to war with the drug companies and insurance companies to get real change, and Obama is too soft on them,  since he would invite them to be part of the debate (Krugman might believe it is better  to water-board their executives, after first taking all their money in higher taxes). 

One wonders what role Krugman has been promised in a future Clinton administration? Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors? Treasury Secretary? Krugman was once considered  a talented young economist, perhaps, in line for a future Nobel Prize in economics, if he kept up his research work. 

But unlike the  Nobel Peace Prize, where a primary consideration appears to be your America bashing credentials, the prize in economics regularly is awarded to serious scholars,  not pedestrian partisan gutter fighters, which is what Krugman has become. It also does not win him any respect that his  newspaper columns routinely require  corrections, since he plays so loose with facts.