Paul Krugman hates anyone or anything republican/conservative and proves it by continuing with liberal myths and lies in the first few sentences. First; The man who lost the popular vote somehow became president. The election came down to Florida election results. In Florida, Bush got more votes than Gore. No recount before or after the election gave Gore the majority of the votes. Bush won. Second; Bush proposed tax cuts only for the rich, lying about tax cuts for everyone else. The facts are that the tax cuts, percentage wise, were larger for those in the middle class and the poor. After the tax cuts, the top 10% paid even more of the tax burden than before the tax cuts. That is a fact. Third; took America to war on false pretenses. False, Large majorities in congress gave Bush the authority to engage Afghanistan and Iraq based on the same intel Bush was seeing. Also, France, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and other countries had the same intel about WMD's in Iraq.