TPM IS TOO NICE TO THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

It reports as "for reals" a NYT article about the decline of Heritage under DeMint, something Paul Krugman is having no part of:

Jim DeMint Hasn’t Destroyed Heritage’s Intellectual Integrity

The organization never had any.
[snip]

The truth is that the pre-DeMint Heritage was Hack Central, producing garbage posing as research. It promoted the death tax scam; it proclaimed that the Ryan plan would push the unemployment rate down to 2.8 percent, then tried to send that “result” down the memory hole. Heritage economists have promoted the fallacy that government spending can’t increase demand. And so on.

So Heritage never was a “think tank” in the sense that actual thought or research took place there. It just played one on TV.

As I posted before, I agree with Krugman's assessment of Heritage.