AMERICAblog: Krugman: "Republicans, once hailed as the 'party of ideas,' have become the party of stupid."
jr
· 1 year ago
the art of the evolution denier
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
He was the sort of Tigger who was always in front when you were showing him the way anywhere, and was generally out of sight when at last you came to the place and said proudly, 'Here we are.'
-- A. A. Milne
hawkseye
· 1 year ago
The only way to manipulate the stupidest of voters is to frighten them more than Mc$ame does.
AdrianBrowne
· 1 year ago
I like how the Republicans are pretending that the Drill Now-thing is a grassroots movement.
I'm so sure.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts...
-- former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver
GottaLaff
· 1 year ago
Stupid is right. Check out stupid McCain in a snarky video that I'm trying to get out there. I hope it's okay to do this, but I figure we're all here for the same cause: http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/0...
mirth
· 1 year ago
I don't know about the site owner, but as a reader it's fine with me if you post your election vids here. It's a very good one. I'm glad that you showed examples of O "fighting back" because some here think he isn't. It seems that at this point in the campaign they want him to get down in the baby poop with McC and that will increase his chances of being elected. They do not get the purpose of McC's baiting tactics of throw everything and see what sticks. *shakes head*
You make them and we'll help spread them. Send this one to John. Maybe he'll feature it in a post.
Thanks so much! Tell you what. You email him. If I do it, it feels even more self-serving than just posting a link in the comments.
If you don't want to, I completely understand. I just feel weird doing it myself. :) Again, many thanks, and I agree with your comments, btw.
mirth
· 1 year ago
No need to feel that way. John has frequently asked his readers to send him post ideas. You have a good product. Send it!
GottaLaff
· 1 year ago
You talked me into it. I emailed him our comments. I feel like a dope, but thanks for the support.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Now you are being charming as well as talented :)
Not to speak for him, but John is committed to getting the latest and most important news posted. He's razor sharp about that and there's only so much extra Ab has room for in a day. I send him stuff all the time and very little of it goes up. LOL If this vid doesn't get posted, keep sending him your stuff. If it's workable for him and he can fit it in, he will. He tells us this all the time.
GottaLaff
· 1 year ago
Awww, thanks. I've had correspondence with him in the past, but he gets so many emails, I've laid off.
I'm just happy that you like the video enough to say what you've said.
:)
castellan
· 1 year ago
I take issue with this in one specific way: there's a difference between "smart" and "clever." In much the same way that a dog is "clever" because it can eventually take advantage of a small gap in a fence (by pushing, pulling, and digging to widen the gap enough to escape) Republicans are "clever" because they throw thousands of tons of shit against the wall and pursue anything that seems to stick. Not thinking things through is evidence that Republicans are NOT "smart."
There was a time a few years ago when I really wondered if Republicans might be the smarter group. Their actions just made no sense and when you looked into the future, you couldn't help but see the terrible effects of their actions. But things kept going more and more their way. At some point, I had to put my faith in reality and claim that eventually, a Republican -- or a group of them -- would screw up so badly that there would never be a way for them to recover because of all the bullshit policies they were chasing. In the end, it seems I was right to put my faith in that reality, but in hindsight, I can honestly say that Republicans weren't being "smart." They had just managed to corner the market on "cleverness" to such an extent that if you ignored the long-term results of their actions, they seemed "smart."
I agree with the idea of the above statements, but let's not call them smart when we know they're not. I think the Republican party is still the "party of ideas" -- it's just that the country as a whole is on to them. Most of their "ideas" in the past were stinkers, and they still are. There's no real change to the Republican party here at all....
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
"You want to take this outside old man?!?" - George W Bush (speaking to George HW Bush)
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
"I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office."
--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2008
therepguy
· 1 year ago
He was kind... I would add that the current republican party is more alined as American first truly christian fascist party... and the average member does get it yet!
Republicans are all about control and the feeding and caring of the wealthy at the expense of all others... there biggest problem is that there boot is slipping off of the American people who have had it with these fascists!
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
"let them eat cake" - GOP slogan
Indigo
· 1 year ago
I have not ever hailed the Republican Party as the "party of ideas." Where did Krugman get that crap?
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The Rethugs will say that of themselves...Start a clock when Newt opens his fat yap and within 35 seconds he'll say "party of ideas"...Newt means his ideas but still "ideas" all the same.
donotmakemecomedownthere
· 1 year ago
"It's like they take pride in being ignorant."
Soundboy_jeff_meanie
· 1 year ago
the part of the chri$tian right??
nuff said
BarrieT
· 1 year ago
Some people seem to think their ignorance is a superior form of wisdom. Religionists, mostly.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
We've been dumbed-down.
jules1721
· 1 year ago
I was infuriated by the "Obama tire guage" promo on the McCain website, so I called their office (the 866-775-2008) and had a twenty minute conversation with the guy who answered the phone. I started by asking if the tire guage really worked, because I would like to use it and thought Senator Obama's suggestion mad great sense. I said I was on the fence about their candidate but leaning towards Obama, but that I couldn't understand why McCain would mock what experts say is a very easy and responsible way to save oil. And that it would do more for energy than off-shore drilling. The guy on the phone was smug, but he did talk to me for a long time (I guess not a lot of people are calling the campaign these days). He gave me the regular song and dance about "tire gauge conversations are not presidential" but I responded with "neither is suggesting your wife enter a topless beauty pageant for hell's angels". The funniest thing he said when I said that Popular Mechanics and most experts agree with Obama, was "I have personally spoken with high level Oil executives and they completely disagree". I laughed out loud and asked how he or anyone could possibly trust Oil executives, who have basically raped and pillaged at Americans' expense. He did get a little testy at that point, but I hung up feeling fantastic. I would encourage all of you to call - it's amazing to converse with the mcsame team.
jcgraham77
· 1 year ago
HAHAHAHAHA THAT MADE MY DAY
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Good column. Krugman should stick to nailing the republicans like this.
tofubo
· 1 year ago
Living in America - hit me Living in America - yeah, I walk in and out Living in America - Yeaaaaaah!
What's astonishing and depressing is the fact that McCain and the Republicans are competitive at all, given what they have done to this country. In a fair and just society, they would admit their massive failings and go off somewhere and commit hari-kari like real men. Hillary Clinton's best line during the primary campaign was something to the effect that as bad as the Republicans have messed up, they ought to be gracious and just excuse themselves from the race. I worry that we are living in some sort of foggy la-la land, in which the rules of reality and cause-and-effect no longer apply. If the voters don't get this one right, then we are finished as a nation.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
The New Christian Wrong
(it was 'Right' but, well, you know...)
RevDrBillyBob
· 1 year ago
So the Wimpocrats are a-gonna nominate their third Sensitive Nineties Guy in a row. GREAT. The only candidate you godless heathen libruls could've nominated that would've won in 2004 was Gen. Wesley Clark; when you folks rejected that guy, the entire GOP breathed a big sigh of you-know-whut. . . . Remember: All the Reeps gotta do this time, too, is -- say "Boo!" and you people will run away a-whimperin' and concede th' 'lection. And in January 09, your "leaders" Harry Reid ("Don't hit me, massa!") and Nancy Pelosi (Does she have a crush on GWB or WHUT ???) will come to bow down to President John McCain. Because the bottom line is: You Wimpocrats don't WANNA win and you don't WANNA be in charge.
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-- A. A. Milne
I'm so sure.
-- former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/0...
*shakes head*
You make them and we'll help spread them. Send this one to John. Maybe he'll feature it in a post.
americablog@starpower.net
If you don't want to, I completely understand. I just feel weird doing it myself. :) Again, many thanks, and I agree with your comments, btw.
Not to speak for him, but John is committed to getting the latest and most important news posted. He's razor sharp about that and there's only so much extra Ab has room for in a day. I send him stuff all the time and very little of it goes up. LOL If this vid doesn't get posted, keep sending him your stuff. If it's workable for him and he can fit it in, he will. He tells us this all the time.
I'm just happy that you like the video enough to say what you've said.
:)
There was a time a few years ago when I really wondered if Republicans might be the smarter group. Their actions just made no sense and when you looked into the future, you couldn't help but see the terrible effects of their actions. But things kept going more and more their way. At some point, I had to put my faith in reality and claim that eventually, a Republican -- or a group of them -- would screw up so badly that there would never be a way for them to recover because of all the bullshit policies they were chasing. In the end, it seems I was right to put my faith in that reality, but in hindsight, I can honestly say that Republicans weren't being "smart." They had just managed to corner the market on "cleverness" to such an extent that if you ignored the long-term results of their actions, they seemed "smart."
I agree with the idea of the above statements, but let's not call them smart when we know they're not. I think the Republican party is still the "party of ideas" -- it's just that the country as a whole is on to them. Most of their "ideas" in the past were stinkers, and they still are. There's no real change to the Republican party here at all....
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
--George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 26, 2008
Republicans are all about control and the feeding and caring of the wealthy at the expense of all others... there biggest problem is that there boot is slipping off of the American people who have had it with these fascists!
nuff said
THAT MADE MY DAY
Living in America - yeah, I walk in and out
Living in America - Yeaaaaaah!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/07/mayor.warra...
I worry that we are living in some sort of foggy la-la land, in which the rules of reality and cause-and-effect no longer apply. If the voters don't get this one right, then we are finished as a nation.
(it was 'Right' but, well, you know...)