President-elect Barack Obama

Team of Smart People

"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.