PASS THE BILL

As I've said before, I'm no fan of Paul Krugman. But he absolutely gets it right today. This bill isn't perfect, but it's much better than nothing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/opinion/18krugman.html?ref=todayspaper

Money quote:

"Bear in mind also the lessons of history: social insurance programs tend to start out highly imperfect and incomplete, but get better and more comprehensive as the years go by. Thus Social Security originally had huge gaps in coverage — and a majority of...