Remember when they gave Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize? One of the judges said it was a way to kick George Bush in the shins. Dubya, of course, made the grave error of liberating 26 million Afghans and 25 million Iraqis from tyranny. Taking action just isn’t permitted in the high falutin world of talk.

Now, Paul Krugman, NYT columnist, former Enron advisor and full-blown sufferer from Bush Derangement Syndrome, has a Nobel for economics.

Rick Moran notes:

It pains me to announce that the Nobel Committee has seen fit to give this loutish, brutish, ignoramus the Nobel Prize in Economics.

A serial exaggerator, a hater, an inveterate clown of the left, Krugman’s over the top, hysterical screeds against Bush, against Republicans, and especially against conservatives have been fodder for this site for many years.

Some of his more infamous columns.

1. He wrote of his fear that conservatives would start “assassinating” their political opponents.

2. He insists to this day that a full manual recount of Florida would have given the election to Gore in 2000 - this despite the fact that the New York Times participated in a consortium of media outlets who used 4 different criteria for counting the votes - Bush won three of those recounts while Gore won one of them by 3 votes.

3. He blamed “conservative ideology” what happened in New Orleans during Katrina.

4. He said at a book signing event, that there would be a”mega—Watergate” scandal to uncover a far—reaching right—wing conspiracy, going back forty years, to gain control of the U.S. government and roll back civil rights…”