Paul Krugman points out the elephant in the room

[CrusaderFrank]

The GOP wants to take the government away from Ph.D.'s and J.D.'s and give it over to MBA's.

I think the Bush Administration showed how well that worked out.

Well this HAS been the worst stretch of unemployment and poverty in American history. Maybe, next time we should elect a President who grew up in America and does not hate Free enterprise instead of a guy who was "President" of Law Review yet totally unfamiliar with the concept of Judicial review

1) Sorry, the stretch in the Great Depression was much longer and deeper. For that matter, so was the stretch in the 1970's and 1980's Recessions of Ford, Carter and Reagan before we started accepting "less".

2) The Republicans have REPEATEDLY refused to do the k ind of stimulus that has ALWAYS ended recessions.

3) You guys need to stop losing your shit because there's a Negro in the White House.

1. Obama's only had 5 years and he's matched FDR step for step in inflicting maximum damage to the private sector. If Obama had a third term he'd exceed FDR's misery record

2. You've been lying so long it's an instinct. Obama got his stimulus for 5 consecutive years. $7 Trill in new debt more spending than anyone else in human history; if your economic theory had the slightest chance of being right, we'd know it by now

3. Liar

 

[Dot Com]

The GOP wants to take the government away from Ph.D.'s and J.D.'s and give it over to MBA's.

I think the Bush Administration showed how well that worked out.

Well this HAS been the worst stretch of unemployment and poverty in American history. Maybe, next time we should elect a President who grew up in America and does not hate Free enterprise instead of a guy who was "President" of Law Review yet totally unfamiliar with the concept of Judicial review

1) Sorry, the stretch in the Great Depression was much longer and deeper. For that matter, so was the stretch in the 1970's and 1980's Recessions of Ford, Carter and Reagan before we started accepting "less".

2) The Republicans have REPEATEDLY refused to do the k ind of stimulus that has ALWAYS ended recessions.

3) You guys need to stop losing your shit because there's a Negro in the White House.

they wake up every morning knowing theres a "different" looking (black guy ) in the white house w/ a "different" sounding name. It burns them up

 

[Dot Com]

he's just saying what many already know:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/chaos-looms/?_r=1&
(snip)

Over the longer run the point is that one of America’s two major political parties has basically gone off the deep end; policy content aside, a sane party doesn’t hold dozens of votes declaring its intention to repeal a law that everyone knows will stay on the books regardless. And since that party continues to hold substantial blocking power, we are looking at a country that’s increasingly ungovernable.

The trouble is that it’s hard to give this issue anything like the amount of coverage it deserves on substantive grounds without repeating oneself. So I do try to mix it up. But neither you nor I should forget that the madness of the GOP is the central issue of our time.

They'd rather sink the country than work together for the betterment of this great nation. Sad that

Oh its worse than that.

The PLAN is to erode the nation's economic health to make it subservient to the corporate masters.

And the plan is working.

This PLAN has a political science name, incidently, since it's not anything especially new.

It's called FASCISM.

The Romans had it in place, long before anybody ever heard of Mussolini or Hitler.

Their government too pretended to be a REPUBLIC.

yep. Republicorp can't win national elections, except for some governor's races, so they'll crash this great nation rather than letting the representatives that the people elected govern on things that they ran on