Obama Annoys Limbaugh, Millions Convert To Conservatism

EdRooney said:
Good point. Paul Krugman, who supported NAFTA in 1993, de-regulation of financial markets in 1999, medicare and social security cuts in 2012... is the perfect example of the rightward drift of the Democratic Party. These are all policies that in the 60's or 70's would have been unthinkable for even a Republican president to push, and now they come out of the mouth of the DNC spokesperson on the NYT opinion pages. Hey it's great, like he says in the column you linked to, that O'bama is finally talking about class and that maybe deficit cutting shouldn't be a priority, but why does Krugman get on that bandwagon only once Fearless Leader has? (after previously rejecting it)?
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You appear to have confused Krugman with Milton Friedman (who remains safely dead).
 
The party of Stupid has finally outdone itself......WTF is this moron thinking?

Republican links Mandela apartheid fight to Obamacare


Rick Santorum, a former and possibly future Republican presidential candidate, offered a tribute to Nelson Mandela that linked the late South African leader's fight against apartheid to the U.S. battle over Obamacare. Both struggles - one involving racial segregation and the other expansion of government as seen in President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law - were against "great injustices," Santorum said on Fox News after Mandela's death Thursday night. "Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that, and that's the reason he is mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed," the former Pennsylvania senator said on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor." "And I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." Santorum, a champion of the Christian right and family values, presented himself as a conservative alternative to Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican presidential primaries.


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Republicans like Santorum can go fuck themselves.

Mitt Romney was not a conservative,

He was a mealy-mouthed Mormon piece of shit.

In case you haven't noticed, I am not a Republican.

And I think the USA will soon become a cesspool of socialism thanks to the Republicans as well as the Democrats

And individuals will have more freedom in Argentina than in the USA.

It's already true for me.
 
steveinbsas said:
Republicans like Santorum can go fuck themselves.

Mitt Romney was not a conservative,

He was a mealy-mouthed Mormon piece of shit.

In case you haven't noticed, I am not a Republican.

And I think the USA will soon become a cesspool of socialism thanks to the Republicans as well as the Democrats

And individuals will have more freedom in Argentina than in the USA.

It's already true for me.
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Maybe. If that should happen [and I doubt it] then I will simply reallocate the amount of time I spend in each place. My tomato plants do very, very well in Argentina.
 
ajoknoblauch said:
You appear to have confused Krugman with Milton Friedman (who remains safely dead).
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Knoblauch,

Krugman supporting NAFTA which as a giant give away to corporations destroyed labour in 3 countries. Thoroughly denounced by labour but endorsed by Krugman.

Krugman on why the door should be slammed on the Mexican migrant workers devastated by NAFTA.

Krugman's paean to Rubinomics and the de-regulation that led to the 2008 crash.

Listen I'm not saying he's Milton Friedman (who yes, praise Ganeesha, is no longer able to spout off drivel), but every day Krugman looks more and more like he's heading in that direction.

The biggest most blatant example is QE, or Abenomics in Japan. These programmes are fully and vocally endorsed by Krugman, yet the same policies used to be called trickle-down economics since all they do is shove a bunch of cash to big banks (remember Krugman supports Too-Big To Fail), with bond buying and zero-interest rate policies. Truly progressive economists, (eg Jack Rasmus, Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker...) point to how this money should be spent on public works, on jobs, on infrastructure. But Krugman never calls for this; he just consistently supports a programme that gives money to the rich. And the effects can be seen in the "jobless recovery". Its a great recovery for the 1%, but not for anyone else.

To emphasise the point, back in the 1980 election, Reagan proposed this same idea, and it was denounced as "Voodoo Economics"... by whom? By George HW Bush. So, to show you just how far the Democrats have shifted to the right, they are now to the right of George Bush the Elder.

My question for you then, is how far will you accompany the Democrats on this rightward plunge? At what point do you eventually say "these policies they're pushing are what I used to be voting against?" Or do you just take whatever it is they put on the plate because the Repubs are worse?
 
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