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+ Krugman nails it (again)! The New York Times offers "Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity" by Paul Krugman. Excerpt: "The Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein have been making waves with a new book acknowledging a truth that, until now, was unmentionable in polite circles. They say our political dysfunction is largely because of the transformation of the Republican Party into an extremist force that is 'dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.' You can’t get cooperation to serve the national interest when one side of the divide sees no distinction between the national interest and its own partisan triumph."