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 * link: URL::http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/opinion/15krugman.html
 * title: title::headline::Getting to Crazy
 * author: author::Paul Krugman
 * date: when posted::2011-07-14
 * source: publication::New York Times
 * topics: topic::US/budget deficit topic::US Republican Party
 * summary: summary::The insanity of the GOP, which many people are finally just noticing, has been building gradually for a long time.
 * lead paragraph: lead paragraph::There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief — of the black-humor variety — in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.