Reader C.L. has it all sussed out, Huff-Puff and Daily Kos style: “Your conclusions about Krugman are all wrong, silly! I would offer that it is safe to assume that W probably called some friends at those ‘objective’ organizations and made them change their results, this, of course, being at the instruction of his father who was at the time in the super-secret Haifa lair of the Likud Party with Ariel Sharon who then called his fellow Hebrew Alan Greenspan to instruct that he lower interest rates so that after the forthcoming Iraq II invasion (planned in 1987, four years prior to Gulf I) W would have no problem getting reelected, all the while knowing that the resultant ‘whiff of stagflation’ that Krugman only a few months ago enthused over would be quashed by all the extra magazine expenditures caused by the American public’s thirst for more Plame news.”

That’s just what I was telling the other Elders of Zion last night!