Reign of Error

The title of this post was lifted from the closing sentence of Paul Krugman's column in the NYT this morning.  He was talking about the Bush family's and more generally republicans' inability to admit they were ever wrong about anything and how this seems to work out as they are continuously rewarded for being wrong.  In Jeb Bush's now infamous interview on Faux News, he averred he would have copied his brother's disastrous march to war even if he knew then what we all know now.  Seeing his foreign policy team is stocked with with such luminaries as Paul "They will greet us as liberators" Wolfowitz, it's no wonder he validated his brother.  Some have even suggested he is in thrall to the chief architect of the Iraq debacle, the un apologetic Dick Cheney.  Meanwhile, no one on the right questions the economic polices that from Reagan to Bush have led at best to increased inequality and at worst to the economic disaster of the last year of W's second term.  Cutting taxes for the rich, shredding the social safety net and deregulating every bank and industry in sight.  What could possibly go wrong.   How the inhabitants of the republican clown car hope to sell this set of policies to an even semi literate American public is beyond me, but somehow it seems to work for them.  Nothing smells sweeter to the modern GOP than the whiff of failure.