President-elect Barack Obama

Team of Smart People

Written by Bob Cesca

"Isn’t it amazing," asks Krugman, "just how impressive the people being named to key positions in the Obama administration seem? Bye-bye hacks and cronies, hello people who actually know what they’re doing. For a bunch of people who were written off as a permanent minority four years ago, the Democrats look remarkably like the natural governing party these days, with a deep bench of talent."

Wait. You mean the very liberal Nobel laureate Paul Krugman doesn't think it's a lopsided melange of center-right Republicans and scheming Clintonites?

And they gave him a Nobel Prize.

Sheesh.

Tool.