Required reading

From Paul Krugman's March 10 column, "Epiphany on the Right," in The New York Times:

...we should guard against a conventional wisdom that seems to be taking hold in some quarters, which says there's something praiseworthy about having initially been taken in by Bush's deceptions, even though the administration's mendacity was obvious from the beginning.

According to this view, if you're a former Bush supporter who now says...that "the administration lies...," you're a brave truth-teller, but if you've been saying that since the early days of the Bush administration, you were unpleasantly shrill.