People are saying terrible things about George W. Bush. ”

With Paul O’Neill joining the ranks, the credentials of the Bush critics just keep getting better.”

I was one of the few commentators who didn’t celebrate Paul O’Neill’s appointment as Treasury secretary. And I couldn’t understand why, if Mr. O’Neill was the principled man his friends described, he didn’t resign early from an administration that was clearly anything but honest.

But now he’s showing the courage I missed back then, by giving us an invaluable, scathing insider’s picture of the Bush administration. —Paul Krugman, New York Times op-ed