NYT's Paul Krugman Bashes Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget, but Lays Off the 'Flim-Flam Sauce'
Respectable economist turned partisan New York Times columnist Paul Krugman weighed in at his nytimes.com blog Tuesday morning on the ambitious budget proposal for Fiscal Year '12, released by the chairman of the House Budget Committee, the formerly flim-flam-sauce-drenched Rep. Paul Ryan.
In his post, headlined “The Threat Within,” Krugman at least held off the childish insults this time, perhaps because it backfired in his face back in August 2010, when the source he used in his column to “prove” Ryan was a flim-flammer acting in bad faith actually wrote a defense of him in response.
Krugman feared Obama would not sufficiently demagogue the issue like brave Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi did when Bush tried to save Social Security through a partial privatization in 2005.
In 2005, the de facto Democratic leader was Nancy Pelosi. And she never bought into either the crisis-mongering or the Beltway desire to prove oneself “serious” by courageously agreeing to hurt ordinary Americans to make the nation safe for high-end tax cuts. She maintained a steely resolve: this privatization shall not pass.
Pelosi is still there. But Barack Obama is now the party’s leader. And let’s be frank: Obama still, after all that has happened, seems devoted to the dream of transcending partisanship, a dream he tries to serve by being nice to Republican ideas no matter how terrible those ideas are. (I did warn about this during the primaries -- just saying.)
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Barack Hussein Obama has run into a buzzsaw
Submitted by wedapeople on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 2:59pm.
Paul Ryan is gonna school Mssr President in economics and in doing so politics !
you had you're shot El Presidente..... You punted.
Pizza anyone !
"PRESENT!"
Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 3:50pm.
"PRESENT!"
(LOL)
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If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
How they Howl !!!
Submitted by ripper58 on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 3:43pm.
and Obambi hasn't submitted a budget since ....when was the last time they submitted one ? oh yeah 2008 was it?
On a different note:
Submitted by retrocon on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 5:00pm.
Respectable Economist?
So, is Obama a "respectable president" because he won a Nobel Peace prize? Won it without actually doing anything? And ultimately doing everything opposite of all the things they were sure he was going to do to earn it? And if he had done all the thing that they wanted him to do to earn it, the US would really be screwed? Do we really associate these foreign socialist awards ceremonies with "respectable" anymore?
Oops, sorry, ranting.
"Won it without actually doing anything?"
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:14pm.
Perhaps the pathetic Nobel Peace Prize Committee suck-ups were anxious to award Obama the prize for his campaign promises, before reality spoiled their liquored-up stupor.
By now the Nobel Peace Prize is seriously besmirched. Sure, the Peace Prize Committee has themselves to blame. It takes people of great character to contribute to Peace; "great" people of negligible character contribute in proportion to their character. The nebbishes that make up the Peace Prize Committee apparently do not understand this. It's a shame.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Obama is so nice…
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 10:54pm.
Wow! Obama tries to be “nice to Republican ideas”? Who knew?
I guess for Paul Krugman, Obama’s categorically ignoring the Republicans instead of siccing ACORN and SEIU thugs on them is being nice.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
So, needle, it would appear
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:06pm.
OBAMA INVITES KEY CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TO TALK BUDGET [link]
is your idea of "categorically ignoring the Republicans..."
That's an interesting concept.
Jer
The White House did dismiss
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:19pm.
The White House did dismiss another CR out of hand... So while the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the Speaker of the House were invited to the little get-together, I wouldn't categorize it as an olive branch either.
It's difficult to compromise when the Repubs won't
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:03am.
take yes for an answer. Boehner had strongly hinted that 73 billion in cuts would clinch the deal. The White House acquiesced but Boehner under pressure from the Tea Party has now upped the ante.
That's the GOP version of give-and-take negotiations. Pretend to give up the olive branch and then take it and beat the hell out of the other guy.
Jer
After the 111th Congress...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:10am.
It's about time they took some of what they dished out!
MM...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:45am.
We've been taking crap like that for as long as I can remember--and that's a long time. Now...it's payback time. :-)
Jer
Obama got around to this so
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:21pm.
Obama got around to this so ridiculously late it hardly counts. And considering the outcome of the meeting, one can imagine “I won” pretty much dismissed them.
Obama has been ignoring Republican as much as possible even since the inauguration.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Why do I get the feeling that anything short of inviting
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:28pm.
every single GOP member of Congress to the White House and handing over the keys to the Oval Office would be regarded as simply further evidence of Obama ignoring Republicans.
Jer
You get that feeling...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:13am.
Because your reasoning is flawed, just like every other Liberal.
The current Oval Office occupant's dislike for ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 1:36am.
dealing with Republicans, "because he 'won', don't you know, has been thoroughly documented.
It has also been conveniently ignored, vehemently denied, or disdainfully pooh-poohed, depending on the situation.
MD
Krugman is a clueless poser.
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 2:02am.
Krugman is a clueless poser. Thomas Sowell breaks it down in Intellectuals and Society.
Ronald Reagan