Paul Krugman interview this AM on BBC World Service--great!!

[Gloria]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_interview.shtml

Here is the link to the archive of this morning's show--"The Interview"

To hear Paul Krugman speak without commercial interruption was such a pleasure.
His succinct analysis of our economic state is something Kerry should echo.
He also recounted his days during the Reagan Admin. ....he thought the people he was surrounded by were "stark raving mad" but didn't think the higher ups were like that. Of course, now he realizes they were...and actually calls the current bunch "mad" without hesitation.

Krugman also discusses his fears for the country if Bush is put in office again. He was asked about how far they thought they would go....he cited a few things that have already happened--the disenfranchising of voters, the redistricting to assure control of the House....and implies that they are ready to do worse ....anything to stay in power.

He also said that if Kerry wins, the GOP will impeach him BEFORE he's even sworn in!!!! This at the end of a bit about the election...how if Kerry wins, even if the Dems take back one part of Congress, Kerry will be screwed over by the GOP. It won't be easy to undue a lot of the damage. And Krugman believes a heck of a lot of damage has been done in only 3 years......

Definitely worth listening to!!!!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. especially after listening to Friedman

going on about how outsourcing is great because those workers in India can buy 'US' products that are no longer made here but in China.

[indigobusiness]

2. thanks

Ill listen

[Thaddeus]

4. Another commercial-free dose of Krugman

can be found here. It was an excellent show from a few months back but still very timely, especially on economic issues.

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/

scroll down the page to find the archive

[indigobusiness]

7. cool

I clicked the bbc link, but is ALL about Reagan.

Does Krugman come in later?

[buycitgo]

14. mcchesney? I'm listening to an archived David Brock interview

as I type this

ha

[Thaddeus]

19. Excellent show

Only problem is that it was interupted by storm warnings. Otherwise a superb show.

[Teddy_Salad]

3. Dang It! All I can get there is a half hour of Reagan

:(

[DAGDA56]

5. Same here...the web page says Krugman...

...but it's a Ronnie Retrospective...damn.

[I Lean Left]

6. Can you

Impeach someone who's not technically president yet??

[indigobusiness]

8. If you can celebrate an unbirthday

you can impeach an unPresident.

This IS Wonderland...after all.

[kaitykaity]

9. I don't think so, but

that doesn't mean those bastards won't try.

[indigobusiness]

13. Quasi-proof...and who are "those bastards"?

White Rabbit Says "Just Follow Me": White House Considers


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Source:
http://sludgereport.blogspot.com/

[kaitykaity]

17. Bastards: DeLay, Hastert, Frist, Lott

The whole crew of the Clinton Jihadists.

[indigobusiness]

20. and why would you want to

stop them impeaching an unpresident?

[kaitykaity]

21. I wouldn't.

They can't do it, he won't be president yet.
But that doesn't mean they won't try. That's
how low they are.

[indigobusiness]

23. I thought we were talking about Bush????

I'm so confused????

[kaitykaity]

24. And I thought this was saying

the Thugs would try to impeach Kerry before he
even took the oath.

:shrug:

Miscommunication.

:hi:

[indigobusiness]

25. ok

Bush IS the unPresident...right? Kerry is the inPresident.

I know right is wrong...but...

It's all so vey confusing...didn't Alice say that?

[kaitykaity]

26. lol.

Yes, she did.

We've been living behind the lookingglass and down
the rabbit hole since 12/12/00. It's so nice to think
it might be almost over.

:crazy:

[BeFree]

10. He is warning us

Will many listen?

Will the masses wake up to the threat the squatters have presented the republic?

Who still does not believe we are in a life or death struggle?

[teryang]

11. I'm getting a Reagan retrospective

...that is making me sick. I can't take anymore.

[ochazuke]

12. Thank God for Krugman, but...

disappointing that one has to go offshore to get his views, even though he is a columnist for the New York Times.

[Zinfandel]

15. Absolutely fantastic column by the great paul Krugman today.simply great!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/06/magazine/06GREENSPAN.html?pagewanted=3

"That was the bait; now Greenspan has pulled the switch. The sequence looks like this: he pushed through an increase in taxes on working Americans, generating a Social Security surplus. Then he used the overall surplus, mainly coming from Social Security, to argue for tax cuts that deliver very little relief to most people but are worth a lot to those making more than $300,000 a year. And

now that those tax cuts have contributed to a soaring deficit, he wants to maintain the tax cuts while cutting Social Security benefits. He never said, ''Let's raise taxes and cut benefits for working families so that we can give big tax cuts to the rich!'' But that's the end result of his advice.

Why did he do it? There are two possible interpretations. The more generous one is that he never gave up the ideals of his younger days. Into his 40's, Greenspan was an acolyte of Ayn Rand, the libertarian novelist and philosopher, and Greenspan has never repudiated his Randian association. Nonetheless, during the Clinton years he came to be viewed as a moderate. Maybe that was a mask, and all those years he was just waiting for an opportunity to use the prestige of his office to undermine the hated institutions of the welfare state."

<snip>

Either way, Greenspan did something remarkable. After becoming a symbol of America's economic turnaround in the 90's, and anointing himself the nation's high priest of fiscal probity, he lent crucial aid and comfort to the most fiscally irresponsible administration in history. In the end, that will be his most important legacy.

[Gloria]

16. I can't believe they took an archive link and put Reagan on!! Maybe

after today, they'll have the interview!

It's such a good one, too!

[loudsue]

18. If Kerry wins.....

You quoted Krugman: "He also said that if Kerry wins, the GOP will impeach him BEFORE he's even sworn in!!!! This at the end of a bit about the election...how if Kerry wins, even if the Dems take back one part of Congress, Kerry will be screwed over by the GOP."

If Kerry wins and appoints Eliot Spitzer as his Atty. General, Spitzer would be able to throw a good portion of the repukes in jail. Tom DeLay, don't forget, is still under investigation in Texas because his campaign $$ was used illegally. He also called in the Dept. of Homeland Security to go after the protesting Texas Dems when they headed for New Mexico & Oklahoma.

If they started going after Kerry, Spitzer could go after them on a myriad of criminal charges.

I'm hoping beyond hope that Kerry IS elected, and that he gets Wes Clark as his VP, and Eliot Spitzer as his Atty. General. That team, alone, could start to make a major change in the direction of the country.

Further, if he threw Michael Powell out of the head FCC post, and got the Commission to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine, we may have some decent press again. Eliot Spitzer's sharp legal mind could find a way to get around some of the shit that the neocons have done to dumb down our Democracy.

The repukes going after Kerry would have their hands full. And as bullies often do, they would back off when they realized they'd get the shot beaten out of them.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Eric J in MN]

22. Because of a court ruling in the 1980s, the FCC can't re-start the

Because of a court ruling in the 1980s, the FCC can't re-start "The Fairness Doctrine" unless Congress specifically authorizes it to.

Don't hold your breath.