Is Brad DeLong trying for this year's 'Krugman the Klown' award?

....with his criticism of his betters who oppose Obama's "Stimulus-palooza'?

Don Boudreaux thinks so.

Excerpt:

"Brad DeLong says that his blog is 'Reality-Based.' And, indeed, it often offers sound, reasonable, clear-eyed commentary - stuff that I typically find valuable even when I disagree with it; indeed, chiefly when I disagree with it.

But not always. This post borders on being scurrilous -- and certainly crosses the border from reality into paranoid fantasy. DeLong calls a number of economists, including my GMU colleague Richard Wagner, 'ethics-free Republican hacks.' The offense that sparks this charge is opposition to government 'stimulus' of the economy.

The charge is outrageous, for a number of reasons."

On the other hand, if you're an over-the-top, out of control Libthinker like De Long (Krugman, and Glen "Sock Puppet" Greenwald, and several local blog "luminaries" also come to mind here), none of those particular truths matter.