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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKrugman: "Wheee! The Heritage Foundation is engaged in frantic damage control"
Wheee! The Heritage Foundation is engaged in frantic damage control; not only did its big anti-immigration-reform report turn out to be a steaming heap of, um, bad research, but one of the co-authors turns out to have a serious white supremacist background...all of this is just a bit of overdue poetic justice.
Remember, Heritage came up with the ludicrous claim that the Ryan plan would cut unemployment to 2.8 percent, then tried to scrub the result from its records. It produced ludicrous studies purporting to show that small farmers and businessmen were victims of the estate tax. And there are many, many more examples.
The truth is that Heritage has never been in the business of doing economic analysis; its just a propaganda agency posing as a think tank. And this time it finally caught up with them.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/same-as-they-ever-were-3/
Wheee!
rdharma
(6,057 posts)MsPithy
(809 posts)will I get tired of grumpy kitty.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.
GINGRICH: Thats not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.
GINGRICH: Wait a second. What you just said is not true. You did not get that from me. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: And you never supported them?
GINGRICH: I agree with them, but Im just saying, what you said to this audience just now plain wasnt true.
(CROSSTALK)
ROMNEY: OK. Let me ask, have you supported in the past an individual mandate?
GINGRICH: I absolutely did with the Heritage Foundation against Hillarycare.
ROMNEY: You did support an individual mandate?
ROMNEY: Oh, OK. Thats what Im saying. We got the idea from you and the Heritage Foundation.
GINGRICH: OK. A little broader.
ROMNEY: OK.
aggiesal
(8,914 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)and Romney made that part of his campaign, then when people pointed out he was lying, he pointed to the Heritage Foundation "report", as if that meant anything.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)when he left the Senate?
You can see he's doing a banner job for them.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)to a nicer guy, unless it was Rush himself.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)from the Heritage Foundation. As if that's going to keep them out of hot water over this.
TacoD
(581 posts)Harvard should be embarrassed at their standards.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)that properly protects writings and research on controversial topics.
While I disagree ... strongly ... with his work, it is important that he have the freedom to discredit himself through his work.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)paid for by....say, Liberty University, Brigham Young, Old Miss (I actually have no idea if any of those have doctoral programs but you see what I'm saying). Having a doctorate from Harvard should mean something.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Why didn't his academic advisers kick his butt out the door. Harvard has some 'splainin' to do about this.
yonder
(9,666 posts)nice ring to that, I think. When do we hear the obligatory "to spend more time with his family" statement?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)they're embarrassed enough. Demint just started and look at the mess its in.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Wonder if DeMented recruited him.
dothemath
(345 posts)DeMint wasn't willing wait a few years to accumulate the millions of dollars that accrue to politicians 'through no efforts of their own other than 'selling their souls to corporate interests'. He quit, repeat Q U I T, two-thirds of the way through his term as senator to speed up the enrichment process. (can you spell P A L I N?). During one interview after his resignation, he made one comment about "term limiting himself". wtf?
I hereby nominate DeMint as posterboy for the kind of destroyer who poses as a citizen serving the wishes of his constituents.
The list is headed by a group of war criminals and includes hundreds of names. Please, everyone, do not pass up an opportunity to severely limit the number of those of DeMint's ilk that aspire to get on the list. Their time is up, and not a minute too soon.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Delicious!
FSogol
(45,485 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)If reincarnation is true, what will he be next time around?
LOL.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Thanks for the memory. Funny thing though, he may have been playing clueless white guy there but this is one of the least clueless men on earth.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)remember how, as I've aged, the song makes more sense to me now than when I was younger.
seltzerwater
(53 posts)As in White heritage, not yours.
harun
(11,348 posts)rurallib
(62,415 posts)I look so forward to more.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)Second only to the AEI guys, whose asses she kisses, Oh! so gently!
navarth
(5,927 posts)Damn shame, when you think of how good it was before Reagan.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)a caller took their bullshit to task...
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)nor any hate group...they should all be handled by Seal Team 6 imo.
Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)Only the GOP could come up with such a thing!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)Thinking isn't really their thing.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)Yet, watch the Heritage Foundation appear, yet again, on Stephanpoulos this Sunday Morning.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)pinto
(106,886 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)Hey,
It seems that racism has been so blatant and out in the open since President Obama was running I guess they might have thought everything was "fine". I mean the idiots at the McCain rallies and all the birther fuckwits and everything else this president has had to put up with, crazy.
Peace
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Birther fuckwits....the new official name of ...birther fuckwits.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)And people wonder why I'm dubious...
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Heritage Foundation: creators of the RomneyObamaCare scheme"
...the real story:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021430496
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1432016
Don't you?
Obamacare Is Already Forcing Private Insurers To Lower Their Premiums
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022825372
Kentucky Will Expand Medicaid Under Obamacare, Cutting Its Uninsured Population By More Than Half
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022824456
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)at least I'm pretty sure that's true - I'll look it up if you're disputing it, let me know. I remember them being at the signing ceremony.
As to BlueState10's account... I was there also when the sausage was being made. As I remember, it started by the Legislature asking Romney what he'd find acceptable. The Heritage Foundation plan was it. The legislature went off and did all of the work after that. Then, yes, Romney tried to gut it. (This is a good example of why triangulation is a catastrophe - the Right pretty quickly needs to sprint farther right to differentiate themselves from putative Democrats.)
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)and if it were, I'd say it's a huge *fail*
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And their friends.
And their enablers.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)nuff not said?
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Love it...
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Author of Heritage Report on Immigration Plan Resigns
By Heidi Przybyla and Jonathan Salant
May 10, 2013 4:35 PM EDT
The Heritage Foundation said one of the authors of its report that criticized a bipartisan Senate plan to revise U.S. immigration laws has resigned.
The co-author, Jason Richwine, had written a Harvard University dissertation in 2009 that said immigrants intelligence quotient scores were substantially lower than those of white Americans and that the difference is likely to persist over several generations.
Richwine is no longer employed by Heritage, said Michael Gonzalez, the groups vice president of communications, in an e-mail today that didnt give a reason for the resignation. Heritage is a Republican-leaning policy group led by former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican.
The report released by Heritage on May 6 said creating a path to citizenship for about 11 million undocumented immigrants now in the U.S. would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion over the immigrants lifetimes.
sheshe2
(83,765 posts)Great job, ProSense!
I am loving this!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)libdude
(136 posts)Thank you Mr. Krugman, no one should be surprised that this group has an underlying rascism streak in it. DeMint fits the bill perfectly. It is difficult to coverup this part of a persons
Thought process, eventually it will reveal itself, although it can be well hidden by the outward trappings of education, religious behavior etc. That is why I am convinced that the whole of the objections and obstructions to President Obama is based not on the ideological level but due to basic rascism.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)I had this cool WWII tank analogy joke to make, but ya know, Heritage just isn't worth the effort. Just like dog shit on your shoe, Ya wipe it off in the grass and never look back.
Hope all the money wasted on Heritage really hurts the investors.
AAO
(3,300 posts)mucifer
(23,542 posts)tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)right here in Michigan also. They call themselves the Mackinac Center. And unfortunately many local newspapers will quote them as a source. We are calling the news out every time we see this and may be making headway.
But they do of course have the backing of the chamber of commerce and big money so it is an uphill battle.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)This could finally be the day of reckoning for these scumbags. Let it be....let it be....
SDjack
(1,448 posts)BootinUp
(47,146 posts)about this, I don't believe I ever saw him use the term Wheee! before.
BootinUp
(47,146 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)I'm sure they believe in what they said, and with every fiber of their being. It's just that they belately realized that what they said was impolitic, that's all. Hence the dmage control.