Ex-Newsweek's Wolffe Compares Romney Economics to 'Pre-9/11 Mindset'
On Friday's The Ed Show, MSNBC analyst Richard Wolffe - formerly of Newsweek - compared Mitt Romney's economic plan to a "pre-9/11" mentality as he went along with substitute host Michael Eric Dyson's complaint that Republicans are being "clearly obstuctionist" against President Obama's economic agenda.
Dyson asked the question:
Richard, have Republicans boxed in President Obama by preventing any jobs legislation from passing? They have been clearly obstructionist.
After agreeing with Dyson and suggesting that Republicans may not have "tactical success" in the election, and compared the recession to the 9/11 attacks as he posed:
And I'd like to draw a comparison with events that conservatives felt very strongly, we all felt very strongly about, which was, in the Bush administration, 9/11. We went through this just these last few years, an economic 9/11. That economic meltdown was a serious crisis that started out in this country and spread around the world.
He continued:
Now, it's one thing for one party to say, "We're not going to help you out, we're not going to give you any votes when you've gone through this crisis, this economic 9/11, and you can deal with it on your own." But now, now at this point, you have a candidate who's bound by those same misjudgments. You have a candidate who actually wants to go back to a pre-economic meltdown, a pre-9/11 mindset, which is to pretend like it never happened, and to say we can go back to a time when the banks were all great and you could just deregulate and everything would be fine.
Wolffe ended up predicting:
We live in this post-meltdown world, and that mindset of obstructionism or pretending it never happened is not going to convince the voters in November.
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The Republicans being
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:00am.
The Republicans being 'clearly obstructionists' against Boy Baraka's economic agenda is one of the FEW things that I can support them for, or give them credit for..............because they have basically rolled over, like wimpy-ass little dogs, and allowed our 'gentler, kinder' tyrant King Barry to do whatever the hell else he wants to do.
And what does '9/11' have to do with this, anyway??? Our enemies don't need no stinkin' 9/11 anymore...........Boy Baraka has invited them into the country. Hell, he's ONE of them!!! And VERY high up on the chain of command.............although I want to vomit every time I consider him to be ANY kind of 'commander'..........because the guy is such a gutless little queebie.
Richard Wolffe is a reincarnated rat, and Dyson is just another race-baiting 'black' guy who makes a good living off the system.
Screw'em both.
I have seen this lie a lot
Submitted by tcm14 on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:14am.
I have seen this lie a lot recently, that conservative economic policies caused the meltdown, when it was actually liberal regulations that caused the mess. But libs have been doing this for as long as they have existed, screwing up the economy with interfering, experimental laws and then blaming the private sector when it hits the fan. It's how they avoid taking responsibility for anything. You can bet that when Obamacare starts screwing up the health care system they will blame the private sector.
I wish they would blame those
Submitted by 4rcane on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:38am.
I wish they would blame those big evil rich education institutions for the expensive degrees
Who
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:30am.
in their right mind would listen to or believe any word coming from these two arrogant no-body's who have zero education and are gutter professionals. As Killa37 said 'WHAT does 9/11 have to do with their stupid remarks? Are they "truthers" and buddies with rosie and ventura?
The libs are always wrong.
Submitted by Stan T on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 1:32am.
The libs are never right....they accuse Bush for the crash, but the dems controled both houses of congress. They accuse Bush for the deficit, but the dems controlled both houses of congress the last two years, when most of the deficit was added on...tax and spend...that's all the dems know, other than playing the race card, never taking responsibility for their actions, and they keep re-inventing the same failed policies they've been trying since the 1920s and the accuse the republicans of living in the past...
They are really arguing that
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 2:10am.
They are really arguing that free market capitalism is over? That big government socialism is the only way? and they think the people will buy that?
capitalism over
Submitted by Agnostic on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 7:39pm.
if you read the thread in the discus section there seems to be people who think they are capitalist but walk the socialist line - nearly completely. They stop short of saying the government should take over but in essence that is what will happen as innovation is stripped out of the economy by oversight.
Right....
Submitted by c5then on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 8:03am.
Because at some time in the recent past, the laws of economics were altered. Just like the laws of physics were changed on 9/11...
\sarc
People are ignorant of the simple laws of economics and therefore easily fooled and misled. That was one of the goals of the liberals taking over the education system.
They have almost achieved critical mass. Most people do not understand economics and put it in the same class as particle physics and orbital calculations. Along with that, almost 50% of the population do not pay any taxes into the Federal Government and anywhere from 25% to 30% of the population actually make an income from the tax system. If you add in SS and Medicare/Medicade we are well above 50% of the population that depends on the Federal Government for at least some if not all of their income.
I change my initial assumption...we have achieved critical mass. The system is in a self-sustaining chain reaction that can only end with the breakup of the country, and period of almost complete anarchy and then the re-establishment of multiple national entities applying various forms of governments. The good news is, it's going to be a slow-motion explosion. Maybe another 20 years or so until the "big bang" and then another 10 years or so until the "reformation".
I hope I am wrong, but I just don't see too many of the benefitters (the free-riders) voting themselves out of their easy position and taking a "pay cut".
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Remember?
Submitted by oldfart on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 9:14am.
Remember a time when Newsweek, and people that used to work there, were reliable and knew what they were talking about?
Now it is just throw bovine excrement against the wall and see what sticks.
I actually look forward to their latest soud off. I need a good chuckle every day.
I wasn't aware...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 9:43am.
that 9/11 changed sound economic theory.
What happened to Clinton Economics?
Submitted by CobraMan on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 12:20pm.
Hay, I thought we were supposed to like the Clinton Era economic policies! Isn't that what we were told, again and again, during the Bush administration, that we need to return to Clinton Era policies? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Clinton Era was before 9/11 and not after it.
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wolffes economics
Submitted by theyjustcantstop on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 3:30pm.
yes people came together after 9/11,they seen what could happen to america.
after o'bama took office in 2008,he got over a $1,000,000,000,000.00 help america through this tough times,look where he spent that money,and they seen what could to america,thats why there was such a landslide in 2010,conservatives were voted into office to stop the.crony, socialist big-government spending,of the previous congress,in 2012 we'll see who wins there.
you got to love these socialist,they scream at the top of their lungs when somebody claims their un-american,but they say conservatives that want socialist big-government spending stopped are un-america.
all government,anyone having to deal with home loans,and the big rating agencies,for the last 15yrs.,caused the ression in 2008,there's to much evidence to deny,some a lot guiltier than others.
from then till now,o'bama,his administration,the fed.,treasury,and the big banks,in my opinion they have made the fincial stability of america worst by many factors.
the headlines that just came out a day or so ago read,the 17 states that elected conservative governors,the unemployment rate dropped,in these states.
as for austerity,pro or con,look no futher than wisconsin.