Was the Nobel prize in Economics wasted on Paul Krugman?

Krugman's column is meant as a column on the economy.
Week after week however, it has turned into a systematic and vitriolic attack on Republicans.
Below is a link to his column, and my letter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/opinion/22krugman.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=krugman%20blood&st=Search

To the New York Times:

"There will be blood", Paul Krugman.

 

I continue to read Krugman's column waiting for nuggets of economic wisdom, explained as clearly as, say, a submission to the Nobel Committee.

All I read though is an incessant invective against "The Republicans".

Monday's column mentions "Republican" or "GOP" no fewer than 11 times, with utter disgust oozing between the lines, while bemoaning the loss of the "Good old days" when our "two great parties came together...". As SNL would say, REALLY?

I'm sure we want to get back to the cooperation that Bush got from Democrats for instance. "Loser!"

More likely, Krugman is waxing nostalgic about a congress where Republicans were perenially in the opposition, a position they learned to navigate adroitly for 40 straight years.

Sadly, Democrats don't seem to have acquired that skill; thus the only avenue left is total ridicule of the other "Great party", to quote Krugman.

Perhaps more sadly, the editorial pages of the Times are nearly unanimous in that sentiment.

Reading the Oped section of the Week in Review, Krugman, Friedman, Rich, Herbert, Biden are all easily interchangeable. Last week, in a column on living with insecurity, Friedman lamented ("I am disgusted by Republicans") for...not supporting an additional gasoline tax so that "we can stop sending money to the people we are fighting." 

Tsk tsk, Mr Friedman, are we really buying oil from the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan?

What does the Gray Lady hope to accomplish by preaching to the Choir?

 

Guedy