Paul Krugman, the hyper-partisan columnist for the New York Times, must have been a competent economist at one time. But those days are so far in the past that even Krugman apparently can no longer remember them. James Taranto documents the extent of Krugman's amnesia:

Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman takes note in his New York Times column of what he calls "the incredible gap that has opened up between the parties":