The Krugman/Limbaugh Nightmare: President Obama Might Succeed

"Nor does Krugman's ideas involve the War In Wherever, a possible

new Health System, the Auto Industry, Unemployment, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc."



Really? Because I got here from this page, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/29/geithnerkrugman-feud-come_n_180477.html where Paul Krugman says, in a roundtable discussion, that the healthcare plan is the key to balancing the budget in the medium term. Further, he talked about the differences between Iraq and Afganistan and the political consequences of withdrawal in either country. And also he talks about the increasing unemployment rate and the 600,000 jobs shed every month for the next few months. He explains how the US debt will not be left unmanageable by the stimulus, etc. etc... So yes, he views economics through the prism of human costs.



You know, though, everyone impugning the motives of someone who has said, quite accurately, that the bank reorganization plan is similar to the Japanese plan, which didn't fail, but didn't really succeed in the way everyone expected, and not that it is a poor plan but that better ones are available for which the president does not appear willing to summon the political will, should probably take a page from the Vice President who consistently mentions what a poor idea it is to question those motives which they cannot divine.
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Oh, Rush... it's so delightful to watch you tempt fate like this.

324.6 lbs.

He's definitely not the first, or by any means the last, but most assuredly the quintessential willfully ignorant gourmand thug (I like the ring of it far more than Big Fat Idiot) of North American politics. Everyone else's motives are darker than his, to believe them, or perhaps, seeing as he wants the president to fail, hopes for rioting at political conventions, and general unrest, he attempts to make everyone's motives as dark as his. I think it is a uniquely interesting feature of hard right movement politicians. They are so effective because their ultimate goals are perpetually unsatisfied. In democratic politcs no group has ever succeeded in turning back social progress for any amount of time. Sure, economic progress has been turned back, and renewed and... ad infinitum, but you'll never get a solid, unimpeachable majority of Americans to again believe that the social, political, and economic benefits of marriage are exclusive to hetrosexual couples, or that abortions should be going on in back alleys instead of doctor's offices. I, on the other hand, am a left-wing, anti-post-modernist, statist, neo-Fordist/Kensian red tory. I will forever be warring with both sides of the spectrum... especially the center.

It's a good place to struggle, I think.