People like the New York Times’ Paul Krugman who want the government to spend a ton more money on all sorts of things often seem to think that this will be done outside the reach of the special interests. When Krugman noticed what he thought was cronyism in the UK’s stimulus push, he called it, laughably, “a new wrinkle in policy that I hereby dub Crony Keynesianism.”

Does Krugman think 2009 stimulus money wasn’t directed to well-connected special interests by both Congress and the executive branch? Doe his minions believe cash-for-clunkers and cash-for-caulkers weren’t shaped and pushed mostly by the groups benefitting from them? Do they also not count the government-employee unions as special interests?

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