For the Record, I Want to Keep These Paul Krugman Comments Handy...

to trot out a few years down the road, when the country is suffering from huge deficit problems, life expectancy in the U.S. begins to decline and banksters are only loaning money to each other:

A funny thing has been happening on Capitol Hill: lately, the Democrats have started exceeding expectations. Health reform, pronounced dead by all the usual suspects, happened (all hail Nancy Pelosi, arguably the greatest Speaker ever.) Now financial reform seems set to pass, in a stronger version than almost anyone expected ...If Democrats hold the House, which is still a big if but is starting to look possible, the 111th Congress — and, yes, Obama’s first two years — will go down in history as an epic success.