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talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/2/2009

Dim Broder

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I'm watching Andrea Mitchell interview David Broder in what's amounting to a sort of parody of High Broderism. But setting aside the unsupported a priori assumption that a bill with input from both parties is necessarily better than a bill put forward by a single party, he just said that this ...

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Hullabaloo — ... There are two explanations for David Broder's pig ignorance here, falling along the same lines of wondering whether the last President was "stupid or evil". ...

Bipartisan bromides
Paul Krugman — Josh Marshall gives us David Broder talking about stimulus — which he says failed to achieve the predicted results the first time. It’s not clear whether he was referring to the TARP or the early 2008 stimulus package, but either way it’s a poor comparison. The TARP isn’t stimulus; the early 2008 package was 1/5 the size of the Obama proposal, and contained nothing but tax cuts. But the part that really got me was Broder saying that we need “the best ideas from both parties.” You see, this isn’t a brainstorming session — it’s a collision of fundamentally incompatible world ...

Krugman on the efforts to get bipartisanship of the economic recovery plan: "There is no middle ground"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Dear people in the White House: Please listen to Paul Krugman. Please. And, stop listening to David Broder. Yesterday, in response to Josh Marshall's post "Dim Broder," Krugman ripped apart the bi-partisan blather of Broder, the painful king of the conventional wisdom: But the part that really got me was Broder saying that we need “the best ideas from both parties.” You see, this isn’t a brainstorming session — it’s a collision of fundamentally incompatible world views. If one thing is clear from the stimulus debate, it’s that the two ...