The only thing threatening to have more sequels.  Set the stage for Porkulus 2, 3, 4, 5, 6:  All The Little Piggies Come Home

(queue Don LaFontaine-esque voiceover)

With a vengeance.

We’re going to need a bigger stimulus. But does the president know that?

…

Wait — there’s more bad news: the fiscal crisis of the states. Unlike the federal government, states are required to run balanced budgets (ed. – The Horror!). And faced with a sharp drop in revenue, most states are preparing savage budget cuts, many of them at the expense of the most vulnerable (ed. – *scream*).

It gets better.  Krueger, er, Krugman admits that the Trillions in stimulus Obama spent has failed but that the solution is to keep digging until we hear bill collectors demanding last month’s payment in Chinese.

Like any good tent-preaching faith healer, Krugman then slaps Republicans out of their wheelchair for the porkulus failure and claims The Pig did not oink prosperity because their faith in it was not strong enough.  Luckily, Kruggy can reuse the fedora for his own version of Indiana Jones and the Last Economic Crusade – a harrowing tale of faith, devotion and wasteful, pet project deficit spending as Kruggy squares off against an 800 year-old templar knight in his Quest For the Holy Fail.

Hundreds of billions under Bush, thousands of billions under Obama who’s taken over the insurance industry, the auto industry and threatening to take over healthcare – but no, it’s not enough yet.  Maybe he can declare every breath we take as polluting the planet and tax that too!  Oh, wait.

Obama administration economists understand the stakes. Indeed, just a few weeks ago, Christina Romer, the chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, published an article on the “lessons of 1937” — the year that F.D.R. gave in to the deficit and inflation hawks, with disastrous consequences both for the economy and for his political agenda.

If not for the country, do it for your legacy!  The Great Depression wasn’t dragging on for 15 years because of bad policies coming out of Washington but because the government wasn’t taxing the CO2 produced by the people in the soup lines enough.

Hey Brother, can you spare a carbon credit?

Krugman inadvertently provides the solution for the NY Times ever-dwindling bank – just keep printing more papers.  If you didn’t sell a million, print five million.  Tell HR to hire more people.  It’s bulletproof.  Don’t listen to those guys with the sales numbers.  They’re just like Republican obstructionists who want the country to fail.

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