Krugman Drinks the Punch

The New York Times’ liberal columnist Paul Krugman reads "Political Punch," apparently.

Or, at least he read THIS ENTRY.

From his column today: "Here’s an example of the sort of thing that makes you wonder (about Democrats): yesterday ABC News reported on its Web site that the Clinton campaign is holding a ‘Rural Americans for Hillary’ lunch and campaign briefing — at the offices of the Troutman Sanders Public Affairs Group, which lobbies for the agribusiness and biotech giant Monsanto. You don’t have to be a Naderite to feel uncomfortable about the implied closeness. I’d put it this way: many progressives, myself included, hope that the next president will be another F.D.R. But we worry that he or she will turn out to be another Grover Cleveland instead — better-intentioned and much more competent than the current occupant of the White House, but too dependent on lobbyists’ money to seriously confront the excesses of our new Gilded Age."