Krugman looks at the Repulican propaganda mill

[pscot]

Shit does not just "happen".

..... the fundamental issues of public policy haven’t changed since Victorian times. Still, some things are different. In particular, the production of humbug — which was still a somewhat amateurish craft when Dickens wrote — has now become a systematic, even industrial, process.

Let me walk you through a case in point, one that I’ve been following lately.....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/opinion/24krugman.html?_r=1

[DCKit]

1. "Well, I guess we should never assume malice when ignorance remains a possibility. "

He's very generous.

I'll say "malice" every damn time.

[yurbud]

2. amoral sociopathic avarice is more like it.

When it suited the wealthy's interests to build and sustain the middle class, they did so.

Now that it does not suit their interests, they don't.

[FreakinDJ]

3. politicians and researchers at humbug factories — I mean, conservative think tanks

ha ha

[immoderate]

4. Scrooge was right in that...

He shouldn't have to contribute to a private (religious) agency to do things his taxes should accomplish. Charity should go to artists, not for people's basic needs.

--imm