His latest starts off by comparing the US to Poland in the late 18th century. If you read Krugman (God only knows why I do), you know he has a total hobby horse about the US being “ungovernable” because Senate rules allow Republicans to prevent Democrats from doing whatever Krugman wants them to do.

Today he literally said that the US is in danger of suffering the fate of Poland, whose territory was partitioned by its three large imperial neighbors because their parliament required unanimity and therefore didn’t succeed in actually making any laws. I guess having a Nobel Prize allows you to present faulty reasoning that Krugman himself would never tolerate from anyone else. Time to start looking over your shoulder at Canada and Mexico: they’re gunning for us.

While scoring the White House for responding weakly to Senator Shelby’s hold on nominations, Krugman did come up with this gem, though: “We know how the Obama administration deals with those who would destroy it: it goes straight for the capillaries.” That was good for a chuckle.