Because Clancy is offering the Gov some sound advice.

From my vantage point in New Orleans, (we're become quite aware of the consequences of failed government), I see this incessant anti government posturing as a grave threat to our democracy and way of life. It's not just Rush and Beck. In the mid-1990's I cancelled my Wall Street Journal subscription over their outragous posturing around Vince Foster's death. Meanness has become the guiding philosophy among too many Republicans and their antics have put our country at risk. It's good to see Krugman name names and sound the alarm!

“We’re giving tax breaks to highly profitable companies to do what they would be doing anyway,” said Sima J. Gandhi, a policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research organization. “That’s not an incentive; that’s a giveaway.” Hear! Hear!