haven't you seen dante's peak????

Krugman continues the Jindal trainwreck postmortem.

Knowing when a volcano is likely to erupt can save many lives; but there’s no private incentive to spend money on monitoring, since even people who didn’t contribute to maintaining the monitoring system can still benefit from the warning. So that’s the sort of activity that should be undertaken by government.


So what did Bobby Jindal choose to ridicule in this response to Obama last night? Volcano monitoring, of course....

The intellectual incoherence is stunning. Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.