Charles Krauthammer admits he wants the economy to keep failing and that stimulus spending will

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work to raise GDP and improve employment. He wants failure so that the GOP can gain power in 2012. Power is all that matters to them. Here is the article where he says it... 'out loud':


Swindle of the year

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, December 10, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120904472.html

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If Obama had asked for a second stimulus directly, he would have been laughed out of town. Stimulus I was so reviled that the Democrats banished the word from their lexicon throughout the 2010 campaign. And yet, despite a very weak post-election hand, Obama got the Republicans to offer to increase spending and cut taxes by $990 billion over two years. Two-thirds of that is above and beyond extension of the Bush tax cuts but includes such urgent national necessities as windmill subsidies.

No mean achievement. After all, these are the same Republicans who spent 2010 running on limited government and reducing debt. And this budget busting occurs less than a week after the president's deficit commission had supposedly signaled a new national consensus of austerity and frugality.

Some Republicans are crowing that Stimulus II is the Republican way - mostly tax cuts - rather than the Democrats' spending orgy of Stimulus I. That's consolation? This just means that Republicans are two years too late. Stimulus II will still blow another near-$1 trillion hole in the budget.

At great cost that will have to be paid after this newest free lunch, the package will add as much as 1 percent to GDP and lower the unemployment rate by about 1.5 percentage points. That could easily be the difference between victory and defeat in 2012.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120904472.html

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1. The single most important victory for the GOP in this deal is the

destruction of SS, that damage will do more harm to Obama than the good the small bump in the GDP will do.