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, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality. It began with a complaint about negative coverage on Fox News, when, in fact, it was the New York Times' front page that featured Obama's foreign policy failures, most recently the inability to conclude a trade agreement with Japan and the collapse of

nstead, what resonates with the public are misleading analogies with the finances of an individual family, which is why Mr. Obama began echoing Mr. Boehner. And even supposedly well-informed people balk at the notion that simple lack of demand can wreak so much havoc. Surely, they insist, we must have

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rough supermarket shelves. At the winter meetings in Dallas last year, the agent had this to say of the financially troubled Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets: “Normally, they’re in the steaks sec- tion, and] found them in the fruits-and- nuts category a let.” Since then, the Dodgers have been sold for $2

ound grumpy old white men, it is committing suicide. That’s bad not just for conservanves but for our entire country. — Nicholas D. Kristof is a New York Times columnist. Contact him at Face book.com/Kristof, Twitter. com/NickKristof or by mail at The New York limes, 620 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10018. HOU