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Now let's see just how far Obama's "I won" stance goes
Brilliant at Breakfast —
... Paul Krugman, who has been critical of the amount devoted to tax cuts in this package, is softening his tone somewhat, perhaps so as not to give the Republicans any more clout. Today he gives a point-by-point rebuttal to John Boehner's vapors about the plan: ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
Monday, and the new week starts. For the pundits, same as the old week? William Kristol: Although conservatism has failed, let's not forget liberalism sucks and needs to prove itself before the public will accept it as legitimate. I will do my part to sow doubt. And, btw, "This is William Kristol’s last column." Paul Krugman: Kristol is right about one thing: conservatives have failed. Now they're Dr. No, but not even honestly. As the debate over President Obama’s economic stimulus plan gets under way, one ...
Must read: Krugman debunks the GOP's misleading claims about the stimulus
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Must read: As the debate over President Obama’s economic stimulus plan gets under way, one thing is certain: many of the plan’s opponents aren’t arguing in good faith. Conservatives really, really don’t want to see a second New Deal, and they certainly don’t want to see government activism vindicated. So they are reaching for any stick they can find with which to beat proposals for increased government spending. Some of these arguments are obvious cheap shots. John Boehner, the House minority leader, has already made headlines with one such shot: looking at an ...
Old Dogs, New Tricks, All Change
JustOneMinute —
Republicans are out, Democrats are in, and everyone must change sides! This dynamic may create awkwardness for those who have left a paper trail but will also create a target-rich environment for others. Let's start with the Most Influential Lib ...
Progressive Breakfast: Who Won In November?
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... NYT's Paul Krugman takes conservatives to task: "...there’s the bogus talking point that the Obama plan will cost $275,000 per job created ... write off anyone who asserts that it’s always better to cut taxes than to increase government spending because taxpayers, not bureaucrats, are the best judges of how to spend their money ... ignore anyone who tries to make something of the fact that the new administration’s chief economic adviser has in the past favored monetary policy over fiscal policy as a response to recessions." ...
Hullabaloo — ... Republicans still love George W. Bush because George W. Bush was a through-and-through Republican. There have been times over the last several years when conservatives have tried to throw Bush over, but there's no denying that he embodied the full spectrum of conservative policies, proving them all to be a hideous failure. And the same arguments that Bush so eloquently made throughout his Presidency are the arguments that conservatives are making as they try to derail the stimulus package. ...
Improving the Stimulus Debate
The Next Right —
... Paul Krugman is deeply frustrating. In today's New York Times op-ed, Krugman makes two important points about intellectual dishonesty - or perhaps mere intellectual hackery - among Republicans, but then engages in dishonesty/hackery of his own. First, Krugman's good points. ...
Look at the Economy the Other Way Around
Corrente —
So, Paul Krugman has taken up a challenge regarding the stimulus plan: he's showing why the GOP critics are not arguing in good faith when they talk about how it can't successfully work. I think he's got some good points in his claims, and I urge you to look at them. I also suggest we take a hard look at the simplest aspect of the proposal: it's not the same approach we've been fed, (tax cuts uber alles) which hasn't worked. Why not try it?
Nota bene: adios, Bill Kristol, Read more…
Jobs
The Reaction —
... , and all the bad-faith Republicans want to do about is gripe, lie, sit on their hands, and call for more tax cuts. A tax cut will not put a Caterpillar worker back on the job. A shovel-ready infrastructure project on the other hand may just do the trick. Until Republicans are serious about turning the economy around they should not have a seat at the table. Period. ...
What's on the show today?
The Latest on Air America —
... January 27, 2009
8:00 Ron breaks down the news of the day
• Oh Blago…
• 14 year old poses as a cop and gets away with it, for a while at least
• Limbaugh wants Obama to fail
8:15 The economy stupid…68,000 jobs lost today alone…More than 200,000 job cuts have been announced so far this year, according to company reports. Nearly 2.6 million jobs were lost over 2008, the highest yearly job-loss total since 1945.
• Ron will discuss this op ed piece by Paul Krugman on President Obama’s stimulis package
• Micheal ...
CBO: The Full Report
Swampland —
... ,” and again in Monday's New York Times, when he argued that spending money in 2011 and 2012 will be needed as much as spending right now. "One person's pork barrel is another person's necessary infrastructure investment. And there actually is a lot of necessary infrastructure investment. I think the theme that is particularly striking right now is, everybody's forecast calls for an extended slump in the economy. We are not looking for something what people call a V-shaped recession,” Krugman told George Stephanopoulos. “When some of these people say the ...
Phil Levy Still Citing Incomplete CBO Report The Day After Actual CBO Report Was Released
Wonk Room —
... In his New York Times column yesterday, economist Paul Krugman criticized the “bad faith economics” of those “reaching for ...
REPORT: GOP Lawmakers Outnumber Democratic Lawmakers 2 To 1 In Stimulus Debate On Cable News
Think Progress —
... on the debate over the economic recovery package.
On Sunday, conservatives began an all-out assault on President Obama’s economic recovery plan, with House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) both announcing that they would vote against the plan as it stood. Despite Obama’s efforts at good faith outreach, congressional conservatives have continued to attack the stimulus plan with a series of false and disingenuous arguments.
The media have been aiding their efforts. In a ...
Cliff Schecter: Bipartisanship: Republicans Still Think It's "Date Rape"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... There is a rough consensus on what needs to be done economically, with regard to foreign policy and on important social issues that spans the gamut from the left to centre-right. Yet as Paul Krugman put it, when discussing the Obama stimulus plan that everyone from Boehner to senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (and pathetically, McCain too) has publicly complained about: ...
Having Ignored Krugman’s Law, Obama Should Heed Cheney’s Law
The Moderate Voice —
... not that Barack Obama’s economic recovery and health care initiatives will fail, but that they might succeed. Or as Krugman himself put it on January 26th: ...
