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It's been so easy for liberals to articulate what have seemed like clear, princpled opinions about everything -- well, clear at least -- since for six years all they've had to do is unflinchingly oppose anything advocated by the Bush administration. Now with Democrats in control of congress, they have to play the harder game of actually deciding whether to be for or against some particular policy. So this morning we see Paul Krugman, normally a fortress of self-assured certainty about every idea he's ever expressed, shimmying about trying to neither support nor oppose Arnold Schwarzenegger's idea for universal health coverage in California.

So am I for or against the Schwarzenegger plan? That’s a tough question. As a practical matter, however, I suspect that the real question is what to do after the plan founders from its own complexity.

I get it. He thinks it will fail, but he's not against it. At least there are some eternal verities that we can always count on from Krugman. From the same column, this axiom, critical to all analyses of health care policy:

Remember, almost 25 percent of Texans are uninsured.

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