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Krugman on Friday: …there’s a growing sense among progressives that they have, as my New York Times colleague Frank Rich suggests, been punked. And that’s why the mixed signals [from the President] on the public option created such an uproar. Now, politics is the art of the possible. Obama was never going to get everything his supporters wanted. But there’s a point at which realism shades over into weakness. It seems as if there is nothing Republicans can do that will draw a rebuke: Sen. Charles Grassley feeds the death panel smear, warning that reform will “pull the plug on grandma,” and two days later the White House declares that it’s still committed to working with him. It’s hard to … More >>