Australian deputy PM: 'Cranks and crazies' in GOP threaten US economy

[liberal N proud]

Australian deputy PM: 'Cranks and crazies' in GOP threaten US economy

By NBC News wire services
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia's deputy prime minister said Friday that the greatest threat to the U.S. economy are "cranks and crazies" in the Republican Party.

Wayne Swan, who also serves as treasurer and is his center-left Labor Party government's ranking finance minister, took aim at the Tea Party during a speech to a business forum on Friday, breaking a convention among Australia's major parties to steer clear of U.S. domestic political debates.

Swan, one of few world leaders able to boast his country had avoided recession during the global financial crisis, also labeled the Tea Party wing of the Republicans as "extreme."

"Let's be blunt and acknowledge the biggest threat to the world's biggest economy are the cranks and crazies that have taken over the Republican Party," Swan said in a speech in Sydney.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14003404-australian-deputy-pm-cranks-and-crazies-in-gop-threaten-us-economy?lite


The world gets it, what is wrong with so many of the voters within this very nation?

[ProfessorGAC]

1. The Cranks And Crazies Won't Care

Their reaction will be "that foreigner should mind his own business." They will also figure he doesn't know what he's talking about, although he clearly does.

This is interesting reading for folks like us, but the crazies will ignore him and the masses will never hear about this.

[oswaldactedalone]

2. He's telling it like it is though.

When will a brave American politician with clout stand up and say the same thing