Is Paul Krugman — NY Times Nobel Prize-Winner and Former Enron Advisor — Bailing on Obama?

A lot of pigs have been taking to the air since Scott Brown’s historic — maybe this time the word actually means something — win in the Massachusetts special election for “Teddy Kennedy’s seat” on Tuesday night. The balance of power has tilted a bit, legislation that looked inevitable a few months ago is stalled, and Obama’s magic touch is gone. Look at them little porkers fly!

Yes, Paul Krugman — the prize-winning but apparently utterly humorless “progressive” Princeton economist who once boasted that he got “money calls” from Enron before Enron went, you know, pork-belly up — has apparently soured on Obama over health-care reform.

In his “Conscience of a Liberal” blog on the New York Times‘s website tonight, he writes, “He Wasn’t the One We’ve Been Waiting For” —

…I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever had about whether he was ready to fight for what his supporters believed in.

Look for hell to freeze over next.