Bushinations

Krugman: The Private Interest. More on Bush’s refusal to admit mistake, in this case the plan to privatize Social Security even though we’ve learned since this came out in 1999 that the stock market can (*cough*) come down (*cough*). He quotes Houston Chronicle reporter R. G. Ratcliffe who wrote in 1998: “A pattern emerges: When a Bush is in power, Bush’s business associates benefit.”