The self-marginalization of Paul Krugman continues apace. Some excerpts from today’s DNC flier AKA his New York Times column:

Some of my friends are in despair. They fear that by the time the political pendulum swings, the damage will be irreparable. A ballooning federal debt, they say, will have made it impossible to deal with the needs of an aging population. Years of unchecked crony capitalism will have destroyed faith in our financial markets. Unilateralist foreign policy will have left us without real allies. And most important of all, environmental neglect will have gone past the point of no return.
They may be right. But we have to behave as if they aren’t, and try to turn American politics around.

And then there’s this:

Democrats should complain as loudly about the real conservative bias of the media as the Republicans complain about its entirely mythical liberal bias; that will help them get their substantive message across.

Now, Krugman used to be a guy who relied on the data. So I’m really curious how he could think that even if Bush was as bad about the environment as his hysterical “friends” think, how we could reach the point of “no return” by 2004. I mean, the environment in the U.S. is in the best shape it’s been in for about a century. It’s steadily improved for the last forty years thanks to all sorts of regulations that Bush would never dream of repealing and, more important, thanks to American prosperity. If Krugman actually believes this scare-rhetoric then he’s simply not a serious person. If he doesn’t believe it, he’s a propagandist for Democrats. Or both.

As for the media bias stuff, he should just get off the pipe. While I don’t concede any of his “pro-Republican” assertions about the media (they’re actually Jonathan Chait’s), even if they were true they don’t change the fact that media bias in favor of Democratic issues continues unabated.