One reader writes in with this to say on that Karl Rove speech:

“…Note the context: in the last 40 years. GW didn’t end “stagflation”,

either (although he may well preside over it in the next two years).

Rove is celebrating Reagan’s achievements and conflating them with

GW Bush’s administration. He’s laying out slabs of lard for suckers,

in my humble opinion the “spurred economic growth” …since

2001 has been almost entirely due to debt (public and private) and

is not, repeat, not sustainable. The “insisted on accountability

and high standards in education” is a laugh…”

Yes, my correspondent may be a (little) harsh on the sources of the current economic strength (and I doubt that we will see a return to stagflation), but “slabs of lard for suckers” was too good not to repeat, particularly in the context of all that GOPork that the president has not seen fit to veto.