Paul Krugman: The World According to the GOP

Over at The Washington Post's Wonkblog, the reporter Lydia DePillis recently asked: "Remember when Republicans were worried about 'economic uncertainty'?" Actually, no, I don't. I remember when they claimed to be worried about economic uncertainty - but it was completely obvious even at the time that this was nothing but an attempt to put a new, quasi-academic gloss on the same old, same old.

What they really meant was that the economy will boom only once we get rid of the Islamic atheist Kenyan socialist and install someone who will be nice to rich people. They grabbed hold of some research that seemed, if you didn't read it carefully, to support their complaints, but there was never any question that they would drop the uncertainty thing the moment it became inconvenient in the pursuit of their real goals. And so they did.