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Greg Mankiw notes that with the new President taking office as well as having control of both chambers of Congress with wide margins that it is time to switch. What kind of switch is he referring too? Jane’s Law:

The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.

About the Author: Steve has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and attended graduate school at The George Washington University, leaving school shortly before staring work on his dissertation when his first child was born. He works in the energy industry and prior to that worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Division of Price Index and Number Research.
 
 
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Call me crazy............but I still have these issues with Obama.......

;->

Posted by Drew | January 21, 2009 | 05:49 pm | Permalink
 

The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.

pretty much sums it up...

Posted by tom p | January 21, 2009 | 05:54 pm | Permalink
 

someone at volokh said something to that effect right after the election and glen greenwald went on one of his great rages about how that was just not true of his partisans! i wonder if you and/or mankiw will be subjected to the same treatment...only one way to find out: to the sock puppets!

Posted by ap | January 21, 2009 | 06:03 pm | Permalink
 

Although, oddly, it strikes me that the switch took place three or four years ago. At least on the more partisan blogs, the Dems were smug and arrogant and the Republicans were insane.

Posted by James Joyner | January 21, 2009 | 08:44 pm | Permalink
 

Although, oddly, it strikes me that the switch took place three or four years ago. At least on the more partisan blogs, the Dems were smug and arrogant and the Republicans were insane.

I consider it warm...kind of like stretching before you exercise.

i wonder if you and/or mankiw will be subjected to the same treatment...only one way to find out: to the sock puppets!

Thanks, I needed a laugh.

Posted by Steve Verdon | January 22, 2009 | 12:23 pm | Permalink
 

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