You can pretty much count on Paul Krugman’s drivel being about the only “expert advice” that those ‘Rat yo-yo’s ever pay attention to.
I didn’t see him on the guest list(not that it matters);
http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/pressreleases?id=1414
Speaker Pelosi. “I am pleased that we had the benefit of the thinking of Dr. Mark Zandi, Dr. Alan Blinder, Bob Kuttner, Heather Boushey, Bill Hambrecht, and Allen Sinai.”
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[”we had the benefit of the thinking of”; as if tax and spend Democrats would do something different...]