Reply #95: Krugman: What all but 5 Republicans support [View All]

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From Friday's blog

2/6/09

Paul Krugman: Thirty-six out of 41 Republican Senators voted for the proposed DeMint amendment to the stimulus bill — a massive package of permanent tax cuts that would create a huge hole in the budget, while doing very little to help the economy.
There isn’t much room for bipartisanship when 87.8% of the other party is totally irresponsible.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/what-all-but-5-republicans-support/



Edit to another Friday entry from Krugman
2/6/09 Appeasing the centrists

Atrios is right, though I’d put it a bit differently: centrism is a pose rather than a philosophy. And to support that pose, the centrists are demanding $100 billion in cuts in the economic stimulus plan — not because they have any coherent argument saying that the plan is $100 billion too big, not because they can identify $100 billion of stuff that should not be done, but in order to be able to say that they forced Obama to move to the center.

Which raises the obvious question: shouldn’t Obama have made a much bigger plan, say $1.3 trillion, his opening gambit? If he had, he could have conceded to the centrists by cutting it to $1.2 trillion, and still have had a plan with a good chance of really controlling this slump. Instead he made preemptive concessions, only to find the centrists demanding another pound of flesh as proof of their centrist power.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/appeasing-the-centrists/




Republicans are so evil, only thinking of themselves. They don't get it, that everyone must sacrifice, support each other, help each other thru the bad times. I would even willing to bet that these type of Republicans have done nothing to prepare and will come after me with a gun to take what little I have saved for my family.
:mad:

another edit: I think Obama should veto this bill with all these tax cuts. The Democrats need to get a different purely stimulus bill, no tax cuts. It will take longer, and the economy might tank, then blame the Republicans because the Repubs didn't want to create jobs, only tax cuts for themselves.