Mon, 01/26/2009 - 2:57pm — Sarah
So, Paul Krugman has taken up a challenge regarding the stimulus plan: he's showing why the GOP critics are not arguing in good faith when they talk about how it can't successfully work. I think he's got some good points in his claims, and I urge you to look at them. I also suggest we take a hard look at the simplest aspect of the proposal: it's not the same approach we've been fed, (tax cuts uber alles) which hasn't worked. Why not try it?
Nota bene: adios, Bill Kristol,
you careless excuse for a columnist.
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I do like this analogy from the Krugman column
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
This is a horrible post, Sarah
For some reason, against my better judgment, I followed the link to Huffington Post--which is part of the media problem given their behavior this election. Krugman was responding to specific bogus assertions by the GOP regarding Obama's stimulus, If you read Krugman regularly, you'd note that he is very skeptical of Obama's stimulus, both scope (too little) and in the details (e.g. tax cuts). Krugman is responding primarily to the conservative attacks on the common sense, er liberal, aspects of Obama's stimulus. It's wrong to interpret Krugman as saying this is somehow new (note the school lunch example, something definitely not new). It's also misleading to pretend that Krugman is championing Obama's stimulus rather than debunking conservative myths. I'm sure he'll take this over nothing, but he hardly seems hopey-changey about Obama's stimulus.
Here's a link to Krugman's blog. Here's an old post of Krugman's everyone should read after reading this post.
Only tyrants rig elections.
well hello there gqmartinez, how's tricks?
I posted on Krugman's column from today's NYT, in which he points out the dishonesty of those GOP attacks on the stimulus plan and on the inefficacy of tax cuts. What's so horrible in my pointing out what he's said? You're perfectly welcome to call me out, but what Krugman says in today's NYT is still valid.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Krugman is valid
In fact, I said this:
In other words, I was calling on people to pay more attention to what Krugman says, not diminishing anything he says. So, if you want to keep you're last sentence in your reply, fine, but it's clear to any observer that the implication from that sentence is absurd.
Only tyrants rig elections.
Simple answers to simple questions:
Why not try it? Because proving he's the first president of the post partisan era is more a priority than turning the economy around. It's good not to listen to what he's saying, but to watch what he's doing. This will be a recurring theme, and will on almost all occasions show that he doesn't get it. The recurring theme being that proving his pet theories are the answer to good governance is more important than actual good governance. Sorry it wasn't very simple.