Telling It Like It Is
In a New York Times Op-Ed piece titled "Failure to Rise," Paul Krugman once again hammers home the idiocy of the Republicans in the US Congress.
"One might have expected Republicans to act at least slightly chastened in these early days of the Obama administration, given both their drubbing in the last two elections and the economic debacle of the past eight years.
"But it’s now clear that the party’s commitment to deep voodoo — enforced, in part, by pressure groups that stand ready to run primary challengers against heretics — is as strong as ever. In both the House and the Senate, the vast majority of Republicans rallied behind the idea that the appropriate response to the abject failure of the Bush administration’s tax cuts is more Bush-style tax cuts.
"And the rhetorical response of conservatives to the stimulus plan — which will, it’s worth bearing in mind, cost substantially less than either the Bush administration’s $2 trillion in tax cuts or the $1 trillion and counting spent in Iraq — has bordered on the deranged."And while we can be happy that the Dem's got the stimulus package passed, Krugman also warns that it is not robust enough to do what it needs to do.
"And I don’t know about you, but I’ve got a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach — a feeling that America just isn’t rising to the greatest economic challenge in 70 years. The best may not lack all conviction, but they seem alarmingly willing to settle for half-measures. And the worst are, as ever, full of passionate intensity, oblivious to the grotesque failure of their doctrine in practice."
Read it all: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13krugman.html?_r=1
Positively,
Carolan
cksBHU I'm out of league here. Too much brain power on display!
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