Krugman: Trump is a blowhard talking nonsense but 'Trumponomics' is more sensible than GOP version.

[pampango]

The Hair and the Houngans

This is really telling: Donald Trump is finally facing an all-out challenge from conservatives — and it’s coming from the Club for Growth.

And who is the Club for Growth? It’s the enforcer organization for voodoo economics, for the claim, utterly refuted by all available evidence, that tax cuts for the rich generate miraculous growth. (High priests in voodoo are houngans, hence my headline).

As I’ve been saying all along, while it’s true that Trump is a blowhard talking nonsense about policy, that’s true of every contender for the GOP nomination. He’s just talking different nonsense. And Trumponomics is, if anything, more sensible than the deep voodoo that has been embraced by Jeb Bush.

Trump isn’t a problem for Republicans; he’s a symptom of the problems Republicans have.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/the-hair-and-the-houngans/

[hifiguy]

1. Krugman, Reich and Pierce

have the unerring and consistent accuracy of the finest atomic clock on the planet.

[dhill926]

2. easy with the clock reference....

some folks are evidently very sensitive to that...(sarcasm whatever...)

[leftynyc]

3. If I had a gun to my head

and was being forced to vote for one of the republicans, I'd vote Trump. How fucked up is it that this clown is the sanest and least conservative in the group?

[NonMetro]

6. Same here

And Trump wouldn't know how to turn this place into a theocracy if he wanted to. And everyone would laugh if he tried!

[valerief]

8. That's the frightening thing about this group of GOP madmen. Trump is the least likable but also

seems to be the least dangerous.

[erronis]

9. He's only the least dangerous because we believe he isn't in someone else's pocket...

But I don't believe that either.

T.Rump didn't get his supposed wealth by playing nicely with friends. He has lots of baggage and some of it will be gunning for him.

Let's hope that he continues to suck the putrid air out of the rest of the repug field, and then has his fartuous self ignited by some well-placed fireworks.

Or maybe this was directed to Crispy, Walker, Fio, (I can't remember them all...)

[The Green Manalishi]

11. Yep. Sad and scary

[phleshdef]

12. No way. He isn't mentally healthy. He could agree with every position I have and I'd never do it.

If I had a gun to my head, it would be Kasich because I think he has his mental faculties in check.

Luckily I'll never have to vote for any of them.

[leftynyc]

13. I think Kasich

is certainly capable but I know he pretends to be sane but is also crazy conservative. I couldn't put someone I know is a crazy conservative in office. I know Trump isn't the conservative he's presented to the teabaggers.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Only because it's so fatally vague. nt

[madokie]

5. I'll buy that explanation

"Trump isn’t a problem for Republicans; he’s a symptom of the problems Republicans have. "

[oldandhappy]

7. a symptom -- yep, I go with that

[jayschool]

10. A symptom

Kind of like diarrhea, am I right?

[TheFarseer]

14. he's the only one of them that is for progressive taxation.

How many times can you tell the working class republicans you favor billionaires paying less taxes and you paying more and expect their vote in November? I'm guessing it's a finite number no matter how much you hate gays and abortion.