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Chuck Schumer reclines on the couch in his office on Capitol Hill, his stockinged feet propped up on the coffee table, a carton of takeout Chinese food perched precariously on his belly. It’s late one night a few days before the start of the confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito, and Schumer is laying out the objectives of each side in the high-stakes game. For the Democrats, Schumer says, the goal of the hearings “is almost metaphysical, or epistemological: It’s to bring out the true Samuel Alito. And his job is to say as little as possible, but enough so...

"...Ubb, ...dub, well, I'd raise taxes..., umm...". Krugman sounded a little like Ted Kennedy without the Brahmin when Smiley, smiling, asked him something like, "Well, you're the New York Times' columnist, the heavy hitter, but any one of us can write a column and put it out there. Anyone can tell us what's wrong. What would you do if you could, Mr. Princeton Professor of Economics, how would you fix our government?" Don't watch enough TV to know if this interview was stale, and searched "Krugman" here before posting- if it ain't news to you, it is to me. I...