This Week panel discusses economy and bailout (Paul Krugman is excellent)

[Wetzelbill]

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[ginnyinWI]

1. thanks for posting. nt

[fascisthunter]

2. At Such a Dire Moment in This Country...

to hear well educated conservatives rewrite history to make a point, to spin Obama's plans is just disgusting. Until these political hyenas get their heads out of their politically brainwashed asses and get on the same friggin page by acknowledging truth rather than their own spin, this country will die a thousand cuts. And what's worse is no one on that panel will suffer the way I and my community will, as we already are. Just disgusting and extremely detached...

Thanks to Paul Krugman for his appearance... the rest? Bleh.... hope they enjoy their Bush tax cuts...

PS - blaming FDR for the Depression now conservatives? It's because of greedy elitest scumbags such as yourself that we had a Great Depression and what makes it worse is how you lie about history when we need everyone on the same fucking page! People need to write these rich snooty bastards...

[Wetzelbill]

3. everything they believe in has been proven wrong

But they still spout it. In the middle of a crisis and in the middle of the bailout negotiations House Republicans nearly tanked the whole thing because they wanted capital gains taxes eliminated.... that's insanse. These people poison the debate, and actually get it framed in their favor, with radical ideas that have proven to be false. If we can't eliminate that ideology or reduce it to irrelevance than we'll never totally get where we need to be economically. We're hijacked by a radical economic ideology.

[fascisthunter]

4. This Country Has Been Hijacked by Those Who Truly Do Not Care about This Country

at least all other parts of it where they don't reside. That much is obvious... the lies though... even NOW!?!?!?! Sick!

[LaPera]

15. Fuck the word "conservatives" they are fucking republicans ALL of them, we've

all worked too hard to make the word "republican" a bad name, a name of hate, liars and cheats who despise workers...........all of which is fact.

Let's NOT let them off the hook with names the republicans now prefer, "conservatives", "GOP", "right of center" or "moderates" they are filthy greedy lying republicans and George Will & the other "conservatives" are corporate fascist, republicans, who embrace republican ideology, an elitist ideology, who always support & vote fucking REPUBLICAN!

[fascisthunter]

18. I'm There with You

[boomerbust]

5. Will

I would love to see George Will work on the Auto line at 65 years of age.

[Lasher]

8. Succinctly put

Those medical benefits are property of employees and retirees, honestly earned just as surely as are their paychecks. George Will should offer up some of his own net worth to help our nation's economy recover before he so freely volunteers the assets of others.

[RollWithIt]

9. Exactly! That made me so angry...

He basically said, "Who gives a shit about tens of thousands of Americans who will lose their insurance because they're not 65 yet."

Sick. There are many DU'ers that need to be taught about this sort of thing.

[boomerbust]

10. It's pricks like George Will

Who never did an honest days work in his lifetime that think everybody else should give up their hard earned benefits to rectify the situation. Conservatives.

[DallasNE]

12. This Is The Same George Will

That knowingly used stolen campaign papers from President Carter to prepare Ronald Reagan for his debate. The guy has no scruples and was shamed decades ago. Why was there no consequences for Will's shameful behavior?

[DallasNE]

11. It's A Nit, But George Will Is 67

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Will

[RollWithIt]

13. Honestly, I've been watching his clips, and I hope he remains a mouthpiece of the right....

The McCain campaign talked about elitism. That guy is completely out of touch. Way too many Washington cocktail dinners. Extremely out of touch with the problems Americans face. That line about under retirement age Americans losing their insurance "not a national crisis" wins us votes every time Americans see it.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. He wasn't talking about retirement age Americans

He was talking about those well short of retirement age (65) who retire from one career.

Of course, if this is encouraged in the auto industry, that's another matter.

[GCP]

6. I loved the way he smacked down George Will

It must hurt being smacked around by a Nobel Laureate - there's no way he can come back after that!

[judasdisney]

7. Krugman: The only public voice representing FDR's heritage

Democrats of 2008 think they know better than FDR.

What else would explain Congress' reckless avoidance of a new New Deal?

[Wetzelbill]

16. kick

[silverweb]

17. My dad worked for GM for 44 years.

He was loyal to the company in the extreme. Now he's old and sick, and GM has cut off his health care.

[Doremus]

20. GM is cutting health care for retirees? I hadn't heard about that.

Do you have a link? I'd like to read up about it.

[silverweb]

22. I don't have a link other than my mother's email to me.

She got the notification from them, along with phone numbers to call for assistance in finding other coverage.

[MISSDem]

19. And Paul is soooo cute, too.

I love to look at him while he is being brillant.

[Duppers]

21. Sam Donaldson:

"His supporters, young people particularly, who saw him as Walking On Water may be very disillusioned if he wisely cannot pursue all of these programs."

:grr:

I never saw that kind of sarcasm applied to the reich wingers by the usual panel here.

[ochazuke]

23. Recalcitrant Student

Krugman set Will straight on the efficacy of the New Deal last week, but just a minute ago (This Week on ABC), Will once again said "the New Deal DID NOT WORK!" Krugman wasn't there, but another guest rightly pointed out that the recession of 1937 was a result of Roosevelt pulling back from the New Deal.

My fear is that New Deal type stimulus will result in a Japan-like spending spree on destructive road projects. Here in Missouri, they want to 4-lane everything. The engineers want it of course. Probably the largest concrete company in the world, based in K.C., is for it. But it's like mandating that everyone in the USA have a coronary bypass operation.