Krugman - The Destructive Center

[Doctor_J]

What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses?

A proud centrist. For that is what the senators who ended up calling the tune on the stimulus bill just accomplished.

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And Mr. Obama got nothing in return for his bipartisan outreach. Not one Republican voted for the House version of the stimulus plan, which was, by the way, better focused than the original administration proposal.

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So has Mr. Obama learned from this experience? Early indications aren’t good.

For rather than acknowledge the failure of his political strategy and the damage to his economic strategy, the president tried to put a postpartisan happy face on the whole thing. “Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands,” he declared on Saturday, and “the scale and scope of this plan is right.”

No, they didn’t, and no, it isn’t.



Entire article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/09/opinion/09krugman.html

[ixion]

1. Give'em hell, Dr. Krugman

I was very disappointed in what I saw in the bill. I'm glad Krugman is calling it like it is.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. i love krugman.

[yurbud]

3. where are the DLCers to explain why Krugman is wrong? or doesn't their PR playbook have ...

a catchphrase to dismiss a Nobel Prize winning economist?