Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

The headline of this morning's Krugman is "Brother, Can you Paradigm?"   Thus we have a measure of the rhythm of political life.  The last time that phrase occupied high saliency in our national political space was when it was used, dismissively if somewhat obscurely,   by Richard Darman, budget director to George Bush--the other  George Bush, the one who was President back before the currrent generation of college freshmen was born.