Krugman brings the hammer down on Ezra and Yglesias.

Do your homework, lads.

Let me add a sort of larger point: aside from the essentially circular political arguments — centrist Democrats insisting that the public option must be dropped to get the votes of centrist Democrats — the argument against the public option boils down to the fact that it’s bad because it is, horrors, a government program. And sooner or later Democrats have to take a stand against Reaganism — against the presumption that if the government does it, it’s bad.

Thank you.

Republicans have been saying for 30 years that government sucks, and by caving on the public option, Democrats would basically be agreeing with them.

I'm not sure why Klein and Yglesias don't see why that's a problem.