America prefers fiscal idiocy to intelligent choices

America prefers fiscal idiocy to intelligent choices

Tim Pawlenty, seen as one of the more serious candidates for the Republican nomination – meaning somebody capable of discussing policy – set out an economic plan, as he called it, that was stunning in its vapidity, writes Clive Crook http://link.ft.com/r/73UJGG/2O8ZIK/V1UB9K/XT3TCA/5C6SX9/50/h?a1=2011&a2=6&a3=13