Kash takes Greenspan out to the woodshed and gives his absurd antitax jihad the what-for (read it in full). Anybody exclaiming that tax increases equivalent to those levied in 1993 would destroy our economy should be recognized as a Rayndian hack and no longer given the keys to the Fed. But with Alan descending ever-deeper into incoherent, party-line, hackitude, we can expect him to be around for a long, long time. As Paul Snow Paul O’Neill and Eric Shinseki will tell you, lock-step inxompetence is the quickest path to job security in the Bush administration.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.